under fire

The headquarters of the Second Special Police Brigade of the North.

Colonel Ken Toyotomi, who usually kept his emotions to himself, had an unusually gloomy expression on his face: "The Eighth Route Army guerrillas are increasingly disrupting public security in North China. Judging from the situation in Hebei, Shandong and Henan, the situation is quite serious."

"In addition to ensuring the safety of the transportation lines, the headquarters requires all units to quickly change from the previous strategy of 'complete destruction and absolute control', which had a huge investment but little effect, to a strategy of rapidly and gradually gathering forces for a focused attack."

"Tactically, we will withdraw a number of strongholds according to the actual situation, concentrate our forces to control railways, roads, and important towns, and adopt various long-distance raids and divide-and-conquer tactics to conduct large-scale sweeps to find the main force of the Eighth Route Army for a decisive battle."

"Expand the intelligence sources, use special forces to attack the local party, government and military organs of the Eighth Route Army, start from key areas, and destroy the bases and guerrilla areas of the Eighth Route Army."

Fengchenjian suddenly changed the subject when he said this: "There is still no clue about the disappearance of two teams of the Northern Special Police. Can you guys tell me what you can do?"

The expressions of the Northern Special Police commanders were not very calm.

A Japanese soldier with the rank of major stood up and said: "Since the Northern Special Police entered Hebei, Shandong and Henan, they have been unstoppable and have captured thousands of anti-Japanese elements, and even several local district officials of the Eighth Route Army. However, an accident occurred along the canal. It is obvious that the Eighth Route Army is retaliating against us!"

Fengchen Jian shook his head: "The North China Special Police's move south is the top secret of the North China Command. Even the Imperial Army has no way of knowing that such a unit exists. Revenge by the Eighth Route Army? That's simply nonsense!"

Another lieutenant colonel stood up and said, "The Tubalu have deployed elite troops along the canal. According to the latest news from the Intelligence Department, they are confirmed to be the guard battalion of the 1st Brigade of the Autonomous Alliance Army."

A Japanese soldier with a high military rank quietly entered the room and came directly to Toyota Fitness' side: "Sir, near Xiwangzhuang, one of the places where the special police team disappeared, an informant reported that he had found traces of the Tubalu intelligence officer."

Toyotomi Ken's eyes were sharp: "Eighth Route Army intelligence officer?"

The assistant nodded: "I think it is probably related to the missing warriors."

Toyotomi Ken immediately stood up and took the notebook handed to him by his subordinate.

After reading it, he frowned and asked, "Major Maeda of An County ordered the detective team to investigate?"

The assistant quickly explained: "Our people are not familiar with the local conditions when it comes to setting traps to catch rats, so after I spoke to Major Maeda, I agreed to his suggestion."

"I need more information, call Maeda immediately!"

Qinghe County was captured by the Eighth Route Army.

The North China Command drew on elite forces from nearby counties to support reconstruction.

Maeda was among them.

Since I was promoted to major, I have had a lot of things to deal with.

Being transferred from An County, the former provincial capital, to the small county of Qinghe was a complete demotion in terms of position.

However, he did not care and instead felt that he could gain more qualifications.

Although the gendarmerie was not a combat force, it had been active on the front lines of the campaign against the Eighth Route Army for many years and had fought against them many times.

He was keenly aware that the Imperial Army had occupied large tracts of land, but there was a big loophole in the intelligence system: a gap at the end.

The intelligence system did not penetrate into ordinary villages.

It’s not that the headquarters didn’t take this into consideration, but as the war progressed, the imperial army occupied more and more places and simply couldn’t organize enough manpower.

Apart from receiving food, the countryside has no strategic value at all.

China is really too big!

Weakhearted.

In fact, it is really easy to bribe the Chinese. Just find an excuse to threaten the lives of their families, and then give them some benefits, and they will work for the empire.

The plan spread out on the table is still incomplete.

The phone next to me suddenly rang.

The operator transferred the call to me in the middle of the night. It must be something serious. As soon as I picked up the receiver, I heard a voice. Maeda's body suddenly straightened up: "Mr. Toyotomi."

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"I am in Qinghe County, ready to welcome you at any time!"

The big guy didn't like this feeling very much.

The enemy's sticky blood kept gushing out.

A squad of fourteen people surrounded a traitor from the detective team who was squatting on the ground with his head in his hands.

The traitors stared with fear in their eyes, their lips trembling and unable to speak.

These people kill people without blinking an eye!

"I told you I won't kill you if you surrender your weapons." The big guy licked the blade of the bayonet with his tongue and said, "You still dare to resist, this is what will happen to you!"

"Eighth Master, please spare my life. I have an eighty-year-old mother to take care of." Someone finally broke down.

"Fuck you, you look like you're in your twenties at most. Did your mother give birth to you when she was sixty?" The big guy sneered and deliberately asked, "How do you know we are the Eighth Route Army?" "Except for the Eighth Master, who else would shout "surrender your weapons" and not be killed?" The detective team member next to him answered in a low voice with a sad face.

"Then tell me, where are you going to go in the middle of the night?"

"We received news that someone in Xiwangzhuang was connected to the Eighth Route Army."

"Xiwangzhuang?" The big guy grinned and said, "In other words, you are planning to catch the Eighth Route Army?"

"We don't want to either, but the Imperial Army is pressing us hard. If we don't go, we'll suffer the consequences."

"How dare you, a traitor, attack Mr. Ba's spy." The big man finished speaking, and the bayonet went directly into the left ear of the traitor who was answering, and came out from the right ear.

Killing people is not the right thing to do. The traitors are used to living on the edge of a knife. Moreover, the Japanese killed people in a much more cruel way than this scene.

So much so that the big guy couldn't even scare these traitors to death.

A member of the detective team suddenly said, "I have a certificate of my repentance and resistance to the war. Even if I joined the detective team, I have never done anything bad. Please verify it, Master."

"Do you have proof?" The big man reached out and snatched the piece of paper from the detective's pocket, looked at it again and again, and shook his head: "It can't be fake, right?"

The detective pointed to the seal on the ID card and said, "It has a stamp from the district committee."

"He has this and can't be killed." The big guy turned back and asked the squad leader: "What should we do?"

"Take them all back and let the work team handle it."

It was completely dark.

The road between the green tents was brightly lit by torches.

There were demons everywhere.

Fengchen Jian sat in the car, watching Maeda busy outside the car and sighed: "The appearance of this group of Eighth Route Army is very strange."

Maeda summarized his men's investigation of the nearby scene and said, "Mr. Toyotomi, you may have overestimated your opponent. The Tubalu are just waiting for their chance."

"What do you mean?"

"There are no shell casings on the ground. The wounds on the bodies were caused by bayonets. The combat effectiveness of the detective team is almost no match for any trained army. Obviously, the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army is still restricted by ammunition. Through investigation, it was confirmed that there were a total of fourteen Eighth Route Army members."

"You mean, with equal forces, the Eighth Route Army captured more than a dozen members of the detective team without firing a single shot?"

"It should be right!"

Toyotomi Ken frowned slightly: "What do you think?"

"The current goal of the Tubalu is to establish a large-scale guerrilla zone in the plains. According to their activity patterns, the important feature of guerrilla warfare is to accumulate strength. Before large-scale military operations, they generally do not disrupt transportation or openly destroy the Imperial Army organization."

"You mean, the Tubalu will soon launch a large-scale military operation?"

"Yes!" Maeda nodded.

Toyotomi Ken smiled and said, "If these rats stay hidden in their holes, there won't be much we can do about them. If they dare to come out, the Imperial Army will kill them all!"

"It's easy to defeat the opponent militarily, but I think in order to disintegrate the Eighth Route Army organization, we should infiltrate the organization and carry out sabotage. The most important thing in intelligence warfare is not the gain or loss of a city or a pond, but the final blow!" Maeda's heart moved. His plan needed to be recognized by the people above.

"The Tubalu intelligence system is a joke. The Imperial Army Intelligence Department is like a lion hunting a rabbit compared to them! It's a waste to have the Empire's elites go around in circles with the Tubalu all day long." Toyotomi Ken looked at Maeda: "I've seen your plan, it's too inefficient."

"The Eighth Route Army is planting intelligence personnel on a large scale in the security zone. I think we only need to lure them with benefits and use the Chinese to control the Chinese."

Toyotomi Ken waved his hand to stop Maeda: "Don't bother with my theories. Tell me how you plan to deal with the current situation."

Maeda smiled awkwardly: "The Eighth Route Army left footprints on the ground. I sent military police disguised as Eighth Route Army soldiers. We just need to follow the footprints on the ground and we will find their lair sooner or later!"

How embarrassing would it be for an imperial soldier to disguise himself as a Tubalu? Toyotomi Ken frowned slightly: "What if this is a trap set by the Tubalu?"

Maeda's expression suddenly became calm: "In the face of absolute strength, what does it matter if it's a trap?"

"It seems that you are very confident?"

"Yes!" Maeda nodded.

"Remember, the focus of this operation is to find the missing North Special Police Elite!"

"Yes!" Maeda nodded again.

"I will transfer an elite squadron of the Northern Special Police to cooperate with you! No matter what the circumstances, even if all the missing warriors die, their identities must not be exposed to the outside world. Just say they are military police." Fengchen Jian didn't believe that the elites of the two squads would be taken prisoner, but he always felt a little uneasy, and then added: "I will coordinate with the headquarters to transfer a battalion from Xiong Erlang's unit to cooperate with this sweep!"

"Yes"

Toyotomi Ken's face was calm: "No matter who it is, if they dare to attack the elites of the Empire, they will be killed without mercy!"

"Yes" Maeda couldn't remember how many times he nodded.

My neck is a little sore. (End of this chapter)