Headquarters of the Japanese First Army in Shanxi.

As soon as Staff Officer Miyano Michichi walked in, he nodded towards Yoshio Shinozuka.

"Commander, the First Army Aviation Brigade has just received news that there are still Imperial soldiers still fighting in Yushe County."

"What's strange is that the headquarters' radio station has lost the radio signal from Yushe County."

Miyano Michichi was originally the combat staff officer of the North China Front. After serving as the combat staff officer of the First Army in Shanxi, he became Shinozuka Yoshio's right-hand man.

"Nani?" Yoshio Shinozuka stood up and said in surprise, "So, Yushe County has fallen into the hands of the Eighth Route Army?"

"Yes." Miyano Michichi nodded.

If the radio station loses its signal, then there is only one possibility: the entire Japanese army in Yushe County is shattered.

"What's going on?" Yoshio Shinozuka frowned, "Didn't the Yushe defenders say that even if the Eighth Route Army attacked the city, they could still defend it for half a day? Why were the entire army suddenly wiped out?"

Miyano Michichi said: "Fujimoto Squadron did say that their headquarters has a strong fortress that cannot be destroyed even by mountain artillery. I don't know what happened there."

"Miyano-kun, where has the Kuroshima Cavalry Regiment reached?"

Yoshio Shinozuka asked, since Yushe County was occupied by the Eighth Route Army, he had no choice but to accept this fact.

"The Black Island Cavalry Regiment has arrived in the Heshun area, which is about seventy kilometers away from Yushe County."

"So slow?" Yoshio Shinozuka said with a dark face, "Order the Kuroshima Cavalry Regiment to speed up the march. We must not let the Eighth Route Army take away the supplies from Yushe County!"

The Black Island Alliance has just reached Heshun, and reinforcements from other directions may be even slower.

The Eighth Route Army's combat effectiveness in attacking Yushe County was too strong, and it took only three or four hours to capture the county seat.

"Hi!" Miyano said, but then he stopped talking.

"Miyano-kun, do you have anything else to say?" Shinozuka Yoshio asked.

"Commander, Prince Akamoto Akiyoshi also followed the Kuroshima Regiment to Yushe County." Miyano Michichi said cautiously.

"Nani?" Shinozuka Yoshio's expression changed, "That idiot Kuroshima, why did you take him with you?"

Miyano Michichi spoke for Kuroshima Morita: "It was... the prince himself took the initiative to follow."

"Then why didn't he report it earlier?"

"This idiot, doesn't he know that if anything happens to the prince, we won't be able to explain it to His Majesty the Emperor?"

Shinozuka Yoshio suppressed his anger. Now he has gone more than 60 kilometers. Even if he sends people to chase him, he will not be able to chase him back.

The county seat was occupied by the Eighth Route Army and could be recaptured. If something happened to the prince, the situation would be serious.

"Order Kuroshima Morita to protect His Highness the Prince. If anything happens to His Highness, let him commit seppuku and apologize!"

"At the same time, order the other three reinforcements to speed up and move closer to Yushe County, and we must retake Yushe County as soon as possible!"

Miyano Michichi hesitated and said: "Commander, what about our mopping up plan?"

"Miyano-kun." Shinozuka Yoshio said, "The Eighth Route Army has destroyed both railways and highways. It is difficult to transport heavy firepower to the mountainous areas, and the logistics and supplies cannot keep up. As a result, not only can the sweep not clear the Eighth Route Army, but even the fur of the Eighth Route Army can't be cleared.

It’s hard to hurt them, so what’s the point of such a sweep?”

"Now we can only retake Yushe County first, otherwise you and I will not be able to explain it to Commander Tada."

Tens of thousands of Japanese troops were tossing back and forth, and most of the communication lines were paralyzed. It was not appropriate to send out large-scale troops to raid in such a situation.

"The Eighth Route Army is so rampant, can we just forget about it?" Miyano Michichi asked.

"No, Miyano-kun, of course we can't just let it go." Shinozuka Yoshio said, "Order the various garrison reinforcements in Yushe County to continue to advance and attack Yuci, Liaoxian, Wuxiang, and Li in the outer base of Taihang.

Conduct sweeps in the area between cities."

"Remember, this raid is just a small warning to the Eighth Route Army. It is not intended to completely eliminate the main force of the Eighth Route Army. The raiding forces of each route must not go deep into the hinterland of the Eighth Route Army base area."

"Hi!" Miyano paused and said, "I understand!"

"Miyano-kun, have you noticed?" Yoshio Shinozuka said again, "The combat style of the deputy commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army in the Taihang Mountains is becoming more and more elusive."

"What the commander said is absolutely true." Miyano Michichi also said with deep emotion, "Who would have thought that this commander actually used reverse thinking this time, and the Eighth Route Army attacked from both sides, not only fighting on the Baijin Railway, but also turning its head

Attack Yushe County."

Yoshio Shinozuka said: "Only commanders and troops like this are worthy of being our First Army's opponent."

…

Commander Shinozuka and Miyano Michichi, who were far away in Taiyuan, were studying the tactical style of General Peng of the Eighth Route Army late at night.

They thought that the attack on Yushe County was part of the plan that had been planned by the Eighth Route Army headquarters, and they never imagined that it was just a temporary initiative of two people.

Yushe County Arsenal.

Wei Dayong broke open the iron lock of the first warehouse, and Zhao Gang and the three battalion commanders also came over.

Two soldiers from behind stepped forward and pushed the heavy iron door open.

The iron door opened, and the beams of more than a dozen flashlights were directed into the warehouse. In the warehouse, rows of wooden boxes were stacked.

"Liu Zi, pry it open!" Wei Dayong said.

"Yes!" The six men behind him drew out their bayonets and began to pry open the wooden crates.

The wooden boards of the box were pried open. Li Yunlong, Zhao Gang and Zhang Dabiao all moved their heads towards it, and the yellow and orange bullets looked a bit dazzling.

"Haha, it's a bullet!" Wang Huaibao laughed, "7.7mm caliber heavy machine gun bullet!"

"Look at the other boxes!"

Li Yunlong looked overjoyed. Isn't it just for these things that he spent so much effort to conquer Yushe County?

Everyone pried open more than a dozen other wooden crates one after another and found that they were full of bullets. In addition to 7.7mm caliber heavy machine gun bullets, there were also 6.5mm caliber rifle bullets and light machine gun bullets.

And the 97-style melon grenade.

Wei Dayong smiled and said to Li Yunlong: "Captain, according to a box of 1,200 bullets, I just counted. There are 100 bullet boxes and 50 grenade boxes. The reserve capacity of a warehouse is 120,000 rounds of bullets. 1,500

A grenade."

"There are four warehouses here." Li Yunlong's eyes lit up, "Only one is empty. So, in this battle, we seized at least 300,000 rounds of ammunition?"

"Not that many." Wei Dayong shook his head and said, "One of the warehouses should contain artillery shells."

There was no need to guess the bullets in the empty warehouse. Everyone knew that some of them were taken away by the group of Japanese and puppet soldiers who were eliminated by the Independent Regiment in Shipan, and most of them were consumed by the defenders in the city.

Although most of those taken away were captured by the Independent Regiment, the ammunition consumption of the Independent Regiment in ambushes and sieges was not a small amount.

But in general, the capture minus the consumption was still a huge profit, not to mention the elimination of more than 1,500 Japanese and puppet troops.
Chapter completed!