The war of resistance against mountains is heavy

Chapter 2222 0 Investigation (Part )

A day later, Shang Zhen and the other three finally appeared on the Japanese army's transportation line. However, the reason Zhou Quan gave about their brigade commander not allowing Shang Zhen to meet Commander Wang left Shang Zhen speechless.

It turned out that their brigade commander and Commander Wang had a good personal relationship. On the surface, the two groups seemed to be in two different camps, but they had a very good relationship in private and even did business with each other.

One group sided with the Japanese army, and the other group sided with the national army, but the two families did not resort to fighting.

The National Army wanted to attack Commander Wang, and the fat brigade commander passed on the message.

The Japanese army wanted to attack the fat brigade commander, and Commander Wang passed on the message.

Then the other party would be like an undercover agent sent by our side to the enemy camp. How could we possibly let Shang Zhen fight the puppet army?

Shang Zhen guessed that the fat brigade commander had this idea in mind. If he could defeat the Japanese army and gain an advantage, the credit would belong to the independent brigade.

If the Japanese army wanted to attack the independent brigade, Commander Wang would definitely send him a message in advance and he would run away.

Since he had gained some credit and had nothing to lose, of course he would not be allowed to attack the puppet army.

But this time they ran for more than sixty or seventy miles. How could it be so easy to make trouble for the Japanese army's transportation lines?

They hid in the woods on the mountain and looked at the road. After waiting for a whole morning, they finally saw the Japanese army, but there were too many of them, and it looked like there was at least a squadron.

If Shang Zhen was bringing his former men with him, he would certainly have the courage to ambush the Japanese army, but with the company of new recruits he is currently leading, he should forget it!

"There was a big battle in the south some time ago." Zhou Qiang would not be idle if he couldn't find a suitable ambush clue.

Shang Zhen said "Oh" and continued to observe the road, then listened to Zhou Quan talking alone.

“I don’t know how many troops we used in total to fight the Japanese, but our independent brigade can only stand aside.

But I heard that a commander of our national army was killed in battle last month." Zhou Quan said again.

"Huh? Which army are you from?" Zhou Quan's words finally succeeded in attracting Shang Zhen's attention.

To be honest, Shang Zhen was not interested in a big war. In that big battle, the Chinese army suffered thousands or even tens of thousands of casualties. It was better for Shang Zhen, with his weak arms and legs, not to try his luck.

But when Zhou Quan said that a military commander was killed in battle, how could Shang Zhen not care?

As far as Shang Zhen knows, it was quite common for officers below the rank of regimental commander to be killed in action during the War of Resistance against Japan, including the regimental commander. However, it was rare for officers above the rank of division commander to be killed in action, and as for army commanders, it was even rarer.

As for military officers, they are officers and colonels, and when they reach the rank of division commander, they have to be at least a major general. A major general is also a general, so how can he just disappear?

What impressed Shang Zhen most was that Wu Keyong, commander of the 67th Army of the Northeast Army, was killed in the later period of the Battle of Shanghai.

"I heard that they were from the 59th Army. It seemed that the commander who died in the battle was also a commander of a war zone. I'm not sure about the details. I heard it from the brigade commander." Zhou Quan said.

"The 59th Army, why does it sound familiar?" Shang Zhen pondered for a moment and then suddenly remembered, "Is the director's surname Zhang?"

"Yes, his surname is Zhang. Do you know Captain Shang?" Qian Feng interrupted.

"I remember that I seemed to have met him from a distance once." Shang Zhen answered casually, but he was still somewhat shocked in his heart.

Because he had actually met Commander Zhang.

Xiao Boji was seriously injured at that time, and their people found Commander Zhang of the 59th Army, and the hospital finally admitted Xiao Boji.

But later on, due to frequent fighting, they left that place, and Xiao Boji did not return to the team after recuperating from his injuries.

To be honest, this happened several years ago, and Shang Zhen almost forgot what that commander Zhang looked like.

But no matter what, he was also a corps commander. Such a great corps commander was killed in battle. If all the generals of the Chinese army were like that corps commander, why worry about not being able to drive the Japanese devils out of China? Shang Zhen couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

But even though he sighed, he was still thinking more about Xiao Boji. He also left a soldier, Shi Xiaowan, to take care of Xiao Boji's daily life.

I don't know what happened to these two little toys. Normally, Xiao Boji recovered from his injuries at the hands of General Zhang, so he would definitely stay in General Zhang's team. If nothing unexpected happens, he should be General Zhang's personal attendant.

That Chief Zhang was killed, so I guess Xiao Boji was also killed.

The mischievous look of the little dustpan appeared in Shang Zhen's mind.

Shang Zhen was thinking about this, Zhou Quan naturally didn't know what Shang Zhen was thinking but he still kept talking: "I heard that General Zhang didn't have many troops around him at that time, and all the troops under his divisions were sent out to fight in other places.

But when the Japanese devils came, he led his soldiers to fight in person and ended up being killed in battle.

What’s important is not this. What’s important is that his body was taken away by the Japanese devils.

But later, we didn't know which unit of our national army snatched his body back.

Our brigade commander said it was all published in the newspapers."

"Never mind whether we can read or not, where can we find newspapers? Let's just focus on the business at hand." Qian Feng interrupted Zhou Quan because he was slow in talking.

"Yeah, we can't control others. Let's take care of ourselves first. I can't even fill my stomach." Shang Zhen also expressed his opinion, so Zhou Quan could only shut up.

They are the lowest-level soldiers, and the commander is too far away from them after all. That is not something they should consider.

Shang Zhen observed the road for a while and decided to think of other ways.

They couldn't hit the Japanese army's large targets, and even if they could hit small targets, it would be meaningless. They were here to conduct reconnaissance.

In the end, it's all for the purpose of grabbing supplies. It would be fine if we could pull out the new recruits by ourselves at that time, but we can't just kill one or two Japanese signalmen.

The key point is that killing them is useless, and the Japanese signalmen cannot be turned into food.

"Are there any Japanese strongholds nearby?" Shang Zhen asked again.

Shang Zhen's question stumped Zhou Quan.

The reason why Zhou Quan was so clear about the dealings between their brigade and Commander Wang was that he had participated in the business dealings between their brigade and Commander Wang.

But it was only limited to the area occupied by the puppet army. As for the situation on the Japanese side, he only knew the terrain but knew nothing about the Japanese troop deployment.

This is the disadvantage of the National Army in the War of Resistance. Shang Zhen knows in his heart that if it were like the Eighth Route Army guerrillas, under normal circumstances, the Eighth Route Army civilians in the area would be on the side of the Eighth Route Army guerrillas, and it could even be said that everyone was an Eighth Route Army spy.

If the invading troops want to attack a certain target and ambush them in certain places, the common people will give them advice.

It seems that we cannot rely on luck to defeat the Japanese. Reconnaissance is really a delicate job.

"This place is still too far from the highway." Shang Zhen suddenly said, "I think I should go to the highway side and take a look."

"Ah?" Upon hearing Shang Zhen say this, both Qian Feng and Zhou Quan showed embarrassed expressions on their faces.

The two of them followed Shang Zhen out because their Captain Liu had given the order, but if they were asked to follow Shang Zhen and take the risk to conduct reconnaissance, it would be difficult for them to do so.

Doing dangerous things and going to war with the Japanese is not their independent style.

This is because Shang Zhen was leading a company of new recruits, a group of ordinary people who had no idea what a battlefield was like. If Shang Zhen had brought the people from their independent brigade and said they were coming to fight the Japanese and rob them, no one would have followed him.

The greatest contribution of their independent brigade in the fight against the Japanese was that they would fire two shots at the Japanese soldiers from a distance of six or seven hundred meters and then run away.

"Niu Jingrui and I will go to the front. You two don't need to get so close." Shang Zhen of course understood what they were thinking and said very considerately.