under fire

On the plains.

The Nine Camps have no roots.

Without roots, there is no supply.

Guns, ammunition and other supplies were replenished by relying on the spoils of war and the capture of the Japanese and puppet troops.

Where there is fighting, there are casualties. The rootless Ninth Battalion was unable to recruit soldiers from the public after its men were reduced in numbers. Its biggest source of reinforcement was the puppet troops captured on the battlefield.

In the eyes of most people, the number of puppet troops in the team is constantly increasing, and the combat effectiveness of the 9th Battalion, which lacks training and has weak discipline, will become increasingly weak.

The facts are shocking!

Because there is also Li Xiang in the Ninth Battalion who suffers from severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.

The Ninth Battalion was not allowed to leave Donggu Town because Donggu Town was where the division stored its winter grain.

The original plan was to use Donggu Town as a battlefield to ambush the Japanese invaders, but now the plan has to change.

He couldn't refuse.

As for Secretary Zhao's statement that it was to ensure the safety of the Ninth Battalion, Hu Yi didn't believe it at all.

The Ninth Battalion captured Donggu Town, inadvertently lighting a lamp for the division and illuminating a road.

Naturally, there are rewards.

The division sent out a squad of armed working team members who were familiar with the conditions along the canal to replace the couriers who transmitted intelligence.

The team dispersed to the north, and after walking five miles turned west, reached the bank of the canal, and secretly turned back to the south, using sorghum fields and reeds along the bank to cover their tracks.

The team seemed to be heading north, but in fact it was moving in the opposite direction, heading south.

After three hours, the team stopped and was now at the canal southwest of Donggu Town.

The squad leader of the armed work team who led the way was named Zhang Zhiqing.

"Because of the fear of the spread of cholera, the division moved all the villagers from nearby villages before the Japanese raid," Zhang Zhiqing told Hu Yi in detail about the division situation.

"So, the place we are going to is a deserted village?" Xiao Hongying in front of Hu Yi turned around and asked with wide eyes, "If there are no fellow villagers in the base, can it still be called a base?"

"It's not that there's no one here. Some people didn't listen to our advice and insisted on staying."

"Aren't they afraid of the devils doing evil?"

"Some people thought they could escape the Japanese's clutches because their family members were serving in the puppet army."

Hu Yi sat at the edge of the reeds and looked at the map.

This place is about ten miles away from the village where Captain Li was stationed when crossing the canal to the east!

It was just behind the second line of defense of the puppet army that was sweeping behind the Japanese!

According to normal people's thinking, to escape from the enemy's encirclement, the farther you run, the better.

This time, a large-scale penetration operation plan was formulated, and offensive operations were adopted.

Concentrate superior forces and launch a rapid attack on the Japanese and puppet troops whose forces were dispersed due to mopping-up operations.

Use intensive firepower to quickly annihilate the enemy, then quickly clean up the battlefield, and quickly evacuate the battlefield before other enemies hear the news and reinforcements arrive.

Three quicks, with the main word being fast.

Of course, if there are few enemies coming to reinforce, I don’t mind taking advantage of the situation and fighting again.

Hu Yi held up a telescope and looked at the other side of the canal not far away.

In the distance, there are sorghum fields of different heights everywhere.

The Japanese planes could no longer be seen in the sky.

Obviously, Wang Shun had already led his team south at this time.

Captain Zhang stood beside Hu Yi and pointed to a depression covered by river water in front of him. "When the canal floods, it often floods the low-lying areas along the river. This area is sparsely populated and suitable for an ambush!"

Hu Yi put down the telescope: "Is the information accurate?"

"It's absolutely correct. One of the puppet army's logistics teams organized more than ten small wooden boats to transport supplies behind the puppet army during the raid. They stopped at the ferry more than ten miles south last night!" Zhang Zhiqing paused here and said, "It happened to be about five miles north of where Captain Li Xiang ambushed the Japanese motorboat yesterday."

About five miles away from the river embankment road, there is a road running from north to south, with telephone poles standing on one side of the road.

The iron wires on the utility poles at this time did not transmit electricity, but were only used as telephone lines for making calls.

A group of puppet army patrolmen armed with rifles walked away chattering.

Not long after, several figures that looked exactly like the patrol team emerged from the reeds beside the road.

"The patrol has left, let's get back to work."

The team stopped near a telephone pole.

The dark shadow of the shovel dug a shallow trench along the road into the reeds in the distance.

A lean figure, carrying a bundle of wires across his shoulder and wearing strange iron rings on his feet, "walked" directly up the pole. When he reached the top of the pole, he deftly wrapped the wires around the iron wire of the porcelain pot on the pole's crossbar.

Stuff the wire on your shoulder into the crack of the wooden pole.

It quickly slid down the electric pole to the ground.

He buried the rubber wire on his shoulder into the shallow ditch, and the soldiers behind him quickly filled the excavated soil back in, and the excess soil was directly bagged and taken away.

"Hey, doesn't the subdistrict have a radio station? Why are you going through all the trouble of putting up a telephone line?"

"The batteries in the radio in the camp won't last long. We have to conserve them. Do you understand?"

"Don't we have a hand-cranked generator?"

"The voltage of that thing is unstable"

"What is voltage?"

“You wouldn’t understand even if I told you.”

"Tell me about it."

"Let's talk about it when I have time." Zhang Xiaodao thought, there is no point in showing off, except for those two words, he doesn't know anything at all.

Now, in order to show off, I have to go to Instructor Liu for advice, and then continue to show off in front of these guys.

The communications soldier who was answering the phone line looked at the two idiots.

Someone who doesn't understand dares to ask. Zhang Xiaodao clearly doesn't understand but deliberately pretends to know and talks nonsense.

"Zhang Xiaodao, come here quickly and step on the generator!" The communicator took off the Mitsubishi Type 94 No. 3A hand-cranked generator weighing more than 20 kilograms from his back.

"Isn't it hand-cranked?"

"This is a facelift, step on it with your foot!"

The Ninth Battalion has no shortage of men. Having attacked the county town twice, it now has radio soldiers, telephone soldiers and everything else.

After the phone was powered on, the telephone soldier began to shake the phone handle.

"Moshimoshi. I'm from Mengcun Artillery Tower. Please connect me to the County Guard."

A noisy voice with a crackling sound came from the telephone receiver: "Moses, Moses"

"Hey, who are you? Speak quickly."

The telephone soldier hung up the phone and looked up and laughed: "Hey, now we can hear where they call from."

The Japanese in the county's telecommunications department were extremely confident about this.

The phone was tapped using high-tech means.

It is absolutely impossible for the Tubalu who don’t even know whether the phone is square or round!

Hu Yi did not use the radio because Liu Yuanqing said that the Japanese's telecommunications reconnaissance and positioning were very powerful. Secondly, the ambushed troops were all small groups of Japanese puppet troops. They were not qualified to use radios and could hardly get batteries.

As for eavesdropping on the Japanese puppet army's phone calls, Liu Yuanqing only explained the principle to the telephone soldier.

This guy actually figured it out directly.

For calls that required manual transfer, he could not only transfer the call through the operator in the county town dozens of miles away, but he could also cut the telephone line and connect the phone to the telephone line in the terminal turret to issue orders to the turret!

Of course, it is best to do this quietly, eavesdropping on the phone calls to the county town.

Orders sent down from the county can also be heard.

"Ring ring ring"

The phone hidden in the reeds suddenly rang.

Pick up the phone after the call.

Hold a pen in one hand and start recording the conversation between the two parties.

"Moshi Moshi." "Moshi Moshi."

"Imperial Army Thirteenth Regiment, where are you?"

"Liaocheng Command, immediately report your current distance from Donggu Town!"

"Less than thirty miles!"

"Starting from your current position, spread out to the west bank of the canal and establish a defense line to the north!"

"What? Aren't we sweeping south? Why do we need to build a defense line behind us?"

"Execute the order!" The call between the two parties ended.

The call was immediately hung up.

After the telephone soldier recorded what he heard, he tore the recording paper from the book and handed it to the communicator next to him: "This message is very important, send it to the battalion commander immediately!" (End of this chapter)