Rise from the sword

Chapter 337
After hearing Yamamoto's speculation, Shinozuka Yoshio opened the map and observed the situation in the south.

Although the sea and the land almost turned their guns on each other when they met, the information exchange between the army was still very smooth. The rank of the first army would naturally be able to obtain the distribution map of the southern forces.

Looking at the map on the table, Yoshio Shinozuka fell into deep thought...

In the case of the Eighth Route Army, Guofu can no longer be regarded as a teammate, and because of the particularity of this mission, it is absolutely impossible to cooperate.

Judging from the map.Starting from Shou County to Banqiao Town on the Huaihe River, there are almost no stable so-called bases along the way, no bases along the way, and no friendly troops who can respond.

This is the case.

As long as it is a commander with a normal mind, he will not send troops to attack more than 700 kilometers to rob three tons of gold.

This is not that the temptation of gold is not enough, but that there is no success rate at all. With a distance of more than 700 kilometers, a lone army marching on foot between mountain roads, any accident will lead to the annihilation of the entire army.

The best way is to deploy troops on the spot, and then support weapons...
but·····

The opponent is Li Yunlong.

Moreover, there is that mysterious Chen Fan, if there is enough information, the time between preparations is long enough...
Squinting his eyes, Yoshio Shinozuka gave an order in a loud voice:
"Order Yangquan No.30 Triple Regiment, Xiyangdi..."

In the end, Shinozuka Yoshio still decided that he would rather believe what he has than believe what he has not...
If Li Yunlong really did it, then he would definitely send troops to support him, and he would come from the south to Shou County. With just a few routes, Shinozuka Yoshio decided to cut off all the road cards for him.

It just so happened that a unit under his command was dispatched from the headquarters of the Front Army recently. It was originally intended to attack the Eighth Route Army arsenal, but now there are still months before the battle begins, so it can be sent out to encircle and suppress this gold transport team.

Following his order, the Japanese troops around Shou County immediately moved into action.

After giving the order, Shinozuka Yoshio felt a headache again.

If Li Yunlong really did it, then he would definitely be scolded, but this is still a trivial matter. Anyway, the navy's gold was robbed, and even if he had a problem, the army would not intervene.

The troublesome question for him is, if it is really Li Yunlong, what will this guy do next?

Thinking of this, Shinozuka Yoshio suddenly felt his scalp tingling.

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"Yangquan, the ghosts from Xiyang came out? They made a circle around the south to our south?"

Shou County is not far from Yangquan, and Li Yunlong had already sent a lot of secret sentries to follow him, and he got this information immediately.

"With the strength of a regiment, we don't have any bases in the south."

"What are they going to do?"

Zhao Gang's tone was puzzled:

"Could it be, the little devil realizes it?"

Now, all the information points to that the little devil is going to launch an attack from the north. The target should be the arsenal, and the headquarters is also ready, but why is he suddenly sending troops to the south?

After much deliberation, Zhao Gang thought of the gold robbery incident.

"possible."

Li Yunlong smiled: "Since the devils in Yangquan are dispatched, let Sun Desheng and the others go."

"Ha ha···"

Hearing this, Political Commissar Zhao also laughed, his tone full of expectation.

They had expected this situation a long time ago. Although they couldn't directly help Zhang Dabiao who came back because of communication problems, they still found ways to provide indirect support.Moreover, you can also take advantage of it by the way and beat the autumn wind.

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Outside Shou County.

between dirt roads.

After occupying Shou County, the troops who were usually idle would come to maintain the road from time to time, so the soil road here was much better than when the devils occupied it.

At this time, Sun Desheng rode on the three jumpers, looking around.

Around him, there were fifteen other three-bounce vehicles ready to go. The engines had already started, and the buzzing sounds merged into one, and finally gathered together, like the low roar of a beast before it bites.

"what a pity···"

Looking sideways at the machine gun in front of Bian Dou, Sun Desheng sighed inwardly.

More than half of the general-purpose machine guns were taken away by Zhang Dabiao and the others. He only had five this time, and the rest could only be made up with the Bren type. In this way, the firepower was directly reduced by half.

Thinking of this, Sun Desheng looked behind.

On the two sidecars in the middle of his team, there was no machine gun in front, but a huge barrel held by the machine gunner.

Suddenly, Sun Desheng laughed again.

Although Zhang Dabao took away a lot of general-purpose machine guns, they also brought another good thing this time.

Large caliber heavy machine gun.

The German motorcycle from Boss Chen has a lot of horsepower and is bigger than the little devil's three bungee. It can transport three people and carry a heavy machine gun at the same time.

It's just that the recoil force of this thing is too great. It can't be carried by the car directly on the motorcycle. It has to be parked and set up on the ground before firing, which is more troublesome.

but····
Thinking of the power of this thing, the power of smashing the devil with a random bullet, Sun Desheng felt the slightest trouble.

"Let's go, aim for Yangquan."

Following Sun Desheng's order, the exhaust pipes of fifteen motorcycles spewed out a puff of blue smoke, and then galloped towards Yangquan with a suddenly louder buzzing sound.

After Sun Desheng set off for a while, also on the road, the cavalry battalion of the Independent Regiment also began to gather.

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the same day.

"Just rest here."

Looking at the map and the bright sky, Wang Gensheng gave an order.

Behind him, forty big mules were already carrying gold on their backs, and the density of gold was extremely high. Eighty kilograms was only the size of a few bricks, and it was almost invisible to the naked eye.Only some firearms and other supplies such as food can be seen.

"Captain, we are already behind schedule..."

On the side, a soldier of the independent regiment was a little anxious.

At this time, five days had passed since they robbed the gold, and it was the sixth day. According to the plan, they had to march at least 440 kilometers, but because of a sudden heavy rain midway, the marching speed was greatly reduced, and as time went by, The physical strength of the soldiers began to decline, and the big mules were not as strong as before. Up to now, they have only marched [-] kilometers.

A full sixty kilometers behind schedule.

"It's okay, rest here for a day, don't act during the day."

Wang Gensheng shook his head resolutely.

Stealth is more important than speed.

Moreover, although the speed was affected by the rain before, he braved the rain and advanced for a certain distance, which completely cleared their footprints. The mountain road here is complicated and there are no traces of footprints. It is difficult to find them.

"Yes."

Afterwards, the transportation team entered the mountain forest where he had been before and hid himself.

There are many mountains in the south, and the woods are much denser than in the north. Wang Gensheng led these dozens of people and forty big mules into the mountains and forests to hide under the cover of the leaden sky in the early morning.

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South.

Huaihe boundary.

The head of the ghost division in charge here is listening to the report:
"Because of the rain, the following scouting cavalry unit lost the opponent's trace about [-] kilometers to the north."

"At present, the intelligence department still has not investigated the origin of this group of people."

"According to local feedback, those motorboats were not produced by us, they should be imitated abroad, but what is certain is that the production time of these three motorboats did not exceed one month, and they must be produced by large foreign factories."

"In addition, we found a temporary hidden dock in Banqiao Town, which is located in a dilapidated house in the river valley one kilometer downstream of Banqiao Town. It is presumed to be used for concealed parking of motorboats."

The staff officer said this, put away the folder, bowed his head and remained silent.

The head of the ghost division rubbed his forehead, feeling that his head was very big.

This matter annoyed him.

The gang that robbed the gold had left his area.

But the impact remains.

Nowadays, there are rumors that someone has found a gold convoy. Although it is basically a rumor, it was found that most of them were ordinary unlucky caravans, but they still caused a lot of trouble for the locust army.

People always like to fabricate rumors, and this thing comes out casually, and it costs nothing to fabricate it. For example, today a mysterious team of mules and horses was found here, and a group of armed teams operating at night was found there.

Similar news emerged one after another.

There is so much news that it is difficult to tell the truth from the fake, but money is touching, let alone three tons of gold. Recently, there have been several incidents of bandits attacking the imperial army.

Coupled with the disturbance of the national government troops and the group of New Fourth Army.

The law and order here is not good, because of this incident, it has directly dropped several levels, and the garrisons everywhere are in a hurry, and the loss is not small, so that he can't spare his hands to track down the gold.

"Order the Intelligence Section to continue the investigation."

The head of the division didn't bother to continue to emphasize, and waved his hand casually.

According to his estimation, it is no longer possible for him alone to find the group of people who robbed the gold. After all, his control range is only about [-] kilometers, and the group of people ran so far.

If you want to investigate it, you can only rely on the intelligence department.

This is the time.A staff officer came in with a telegram in his hand:
"General, a telegram from Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka of the First Army."

"Ok?"

The head of the division was taken aback.

After the failure of the joint plan for naval gold, he and Shinozuka Yoshio lost contact. After all, they were not very familiar with each other, and they were not in the same order of battle. If there was no interest connection, they would naturally break up.

As a result, the division commander read the telegram,

Soon, the corners of the division commander's eyes twitched, and his expression was obviously angry: "This group of gold robbers came from the northern Shanxi? Is it the same group as the group that robbed Taiyuan gold?"

"Or the Eighth Route Army?"

"What does Shinozuka Yoshio mean?"

Then, he slapped the telegram far away.

For the news in hand, the head of the ghost division didn't believe a word.

The one who robbed the gold came from Shanxi?

Do you really think I'm a fool?
Not to mention the distance of more than 700 kilometers.

Can the Eighth Route Army get the imperial motorboat?Can you figure out the timing of the naval transport?This is something that even their army intelligence department failed to figure out.

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Taiyuan.

After confirming that the little devil was planning to deal with the Eighth Route Army, Yan Laoxi felt relieved, but the recent events in the south had attracted his attention deeply.

The little devil's three tons of gold were robbed.

At the beginning when he heard the news, Yan Laoxi's eyeballs were red.

Nowadays, the Jinsui army is living in a miserable life, not to mention the arrears of military pay. This is a very common thing. Even food has begun to have a serious shortage of supply. Can't support much either.

There are channels to buy food, but there is no way to do it without money.

If I can get this batch of gold...

Thinking of this, he sighed.

At the beginning, the Eighth Route Army snatched back more than a ton of gold from Taiyuan, and even blew up the airport of the Devil's First Army. While he was proud, his eyes were fixed on that ton of gold.

So while rewarding the commander of the Eighth Route Army verbally, he also sent someone over to discuss whether the batch of gold belonged to him and was robbed by the little devil.

"commander."

At this moment, a staff officer came in with a telegram in his hand:
"According to the news from the south, it seems that the little devil still failed to catch the group of people who robbed the gold."

The way of the staff, what kind of information does the commander most want to hear, and immediately informed the content of the telegram transferred from the government.

"Ah."

Eyeballs moved, Yan Laoxi nodded expressionlessly.

In his heart, he was thinking about who did it.

Over there, even though the forest has been occupied by devils, the national government has relatively strong influence. As for the group of New Fourth Army, their sphere of influence has not yet extended to the Huaihe River, and only the national government has the ability to organize forces to rob this group of devils' gold.

Therefore, he has always wondered whether the army of the national government did it, and then deliberately did not publicize it, so as to monopolize it.

Thinking of himself and others, Yan Laoxi asked himself, if he got this batch of gold, he would definitely cover it up tightly and never let anyone know.

The staff officer continued:

"The Japanese army in Yangquan dispatched and marched north of Shou County..."

"Oh?"

Yan Laoxi was surprised: "Is this planning to recover Shou County?"

The staff officer did not respond, he was only responsible for reporting information, and he continued: "In addition, the Japanese army in Yangquan seems to have been attacked by guerrillas. According to intelligence, this group of people set off from Shou County, and they should be members of the independent regiment."

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The same news also appeared in the First Army Command.

"General, Chief Shinji Koza is calling."

"A group of troops appeared around Yangquan. They were riding motorcycles and equipped with large-caliber heavy machine guns. They were attacking strongholds and military depots, and a cavalry team of about 300 people from Shou County was also attacking Yangquan."

"Because of the lack of troops and the opponent's strong mobility, Chief Shinji Kosawa asked for tactical guidance."

Yoshio Shinozuka, who received the news, immediately rubbed his head with a headache, and then gritted his teeth and spit out a few words:
"Li Yunlong..."

Next to him, Yamamoto bowed his head silently.

　This dungeon is broken, anticlimactic...

　　halo halo
　　Speed ​​up to end...
　　Hurry up to the big raid, this is easy to write.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)