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Tick-tick...Guxian...the telegraph machine finally rang, which made Inoue, who was still pacing back and forth, stop as if he had been electrocuted, and then turned around to look in the direction of the telegraph machine.

At this moment, Inoue felt that the time was extremely long, and every second was torture! However, he did not make a sound, nor did he make any other movements. Instead, he just stared at the communications staff as he received the message, translated it bit by bit, and finally presented it in front of him.

"Yoshi, finally, finally there is an order! Although this order is a full hour and 20 minutes later than our original plan, it finally came! Now, I order the 17th Battalion of the Imperial Army to immediately reorganize the team and advance towards Shizhuang! After all the Imperial Army has set off, all the troops of the 24th Battalion will set off and keep a distance of 500 meters from the Imperial Army!"

"Also, immediately send a telegram to the troops heading north, asking them to return along the same route and run as fast as they can. I'll give them 20 minutes to get back! Tell them that if they don't get back on time, they'll be surrounded and destroyed by the Eighth Route Army! Okay, go and execute the order!" After giving the order at an extremely fast speed, Inoue sat down on the chair and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Imperial Army, Imperial Army, if the Eighth Route Army has predicted our movements in advance, then blocking them from the front is the best way! So, let the Imperial Army test the Eighth Route Army's strength! 500 meters is enough for us to react, isn't it?" Muttering to himself, Inoue reached into his pocket, then took out a steel wine jug, opened it and put it to his lips.

Sniffing the aroma of Fenjiu, Inoue took a sip and quickly screwed the cap back on. While savoring the taste of the wine, he was secretly thinking: "Xinghua Village is a great place. Fenjiu is indeed a famous wine in China! What a pity! Why doesn't such a good wine appear in Japan?"

The Japanese moved, and the puppet troops began to gather around Gu County and get ready, which took time.

In fact, Inoue's guess was correct. The Eighth Route Army was indeed interested in him. After all, more than 772 Japanese puppet troops had been eliminated, so they didn't care if there were another 20, right? In fact, not long after the reconnaissance plane flew away, the nd Regiment and the th Regiment quickly gathered at the mouth of the ditch.

The first thing that Captain Cheng and his men saw was the scattered corpses of the Japanese soldiers and the cars that were still smoking. After they met Guo Liandong, they learned the specific movements of the Japanese soldiers and learned that a team of more than 300 Japanese soldiers were heading north. However, like Guo Liandong, no one took these Japanese soldiers seriously and just thought they were delivering equipment.

"So, based on the current situation, will the Japanese continue to move northward, or will they retreat?" Captain Cheng asked this question.

"No matter how the Japanese move, we need to make arrangements! While there is still time, let's deduce the Japanese's movements?" Guo Liandong suggested.

"Why are you still arguing? The Japs can just stay in Guxian, go back to Qinshui, or return to Changzi! We can't control if the Japs return to Qinshui, but if they stay in Guxian we will beat them, and if they retreat to Changzi we will beat them even more! Therefore, we three main regiments plus one battalion should just divide the work!" said the commander of the 20th regiment.

"How should we divide the work?" Guo Liandong thought for a while and said, "In this way, we will make arrangements according to the Japanese staying in Guxian and retreating eastward! Our Second Battalion did not fight this time..." Guo Liandong ignored everyone's contemptuous eyes and continued, "So, we will go straight south, eliminate the Japanese puppet troops on the way, and then go to Songshuling to meet up with our reconnaissance troops!" "If the Japanese go back to Qinshui, then we will give chase appropriately! Among your three regiments, who will follow us south? 16 or 20?"

"Let's follow them. We are familiar with the people and the terrain!" The leader of the 20th Regiment took over the job while the leader of the 16th Regiment was away.

"Okay, our 772nd Regiment will take the main force of the 16th Regiment and go directly east from here, cross the snake's back and go south to Lao Zhuang, and then go directly to Shi Zhuang! In this way, no matter how the Japanese move, we can fight! Well, except for the Japanese retreat, then we really can't catch up, and there is no need to chase, otherwise we might have another siege of Qinshui!" said Captain Cheng.

"Okay, let's act now without further ado!" Guo Liandong did what he said. He stood up and turned around to reorganize the team.

Guo Liandong did the same, and the commander of the 20th Regiment was no exception. He waved his hand and called the messenger. Soon, all the comrades in the 20th Regiment knew that they were going to the south, and they packed their equipment and prepared for battle.

The 772nd Regiment sent a telegram to the 16th Regiment, asking them to prepare several main companies to move eastward, as they were still finishing up the work (digging pits to bury the enemy). At the same time, they sent a telegram to the artillery battalion, asking them to move eastward as well - they only needed to bring 12 heavy mortars and more shells, but they could forget about the mountain artillery, as they were too heavy to cross the mountain ridge.

From the map, Shizhuang is located in the northeast of Guxian County. From a parallel angle, it is only 1.5 kilometers south of Goukou. The straight-line distance from Goukou to Guxian County is 10 kilometers, and to Shizhuang is 10 kilometers, while the distance from Guxian County to Shizhuang is more than 12 kilometers. Well, the three parties are located at the three corners of a triangular area. Now the Japanese want to go to Shizhuang, and the 772nd Regiment and the 16th Regiment also want to go to Shizhuang.

So, Shizhuang... Well, Shizhuang is not the key to this battle. The key point is actually Songshuling where the special forces are located, because Songshuling is located in the north of Guxian County, and the east of Songshuling is the river valley leading to Shizhuang, and the west is the river valley leading to Goukou. Therefore, as long as we wait for the devils to pass to the east and then lock Songshuling, the devils will be completely blocked in the river valley!

Of course, the Japanese can also go southeast along the path halfway and then go to Gaoping. However, the villages along the way are our bases, and the militiamen are eagerly waiting for the Japanese to deliver them to the muzzles of their own shotguns! Although Taiyue District does not have as many arsenals as Taihang District, the largest and best ones are only reloading bullets and producing mortar grenades.

However, shotguns are a weapon that can be recycled and produced by yourself, so it is still very easy to manufacture! So, God knows how many shotguns there are in Taiyue District! Even if they are not as light and easy to carry as the shotguns officially produced by the arsenal, the ammunition is a copper shell shotgun with fixed charge, and its power should not be underestimated!
The simplest method is to find an iron pipe, steel pipe or cast iron pipe, block one end, put black gunpowder inside, add a baffle in front, and add a few pounds of iron sand in front of the baffle. Is this a simple shotgun? Yes, this is the broom cannon, which was once used by the Yanling team to fight ghost motorboats. Li Yuexuan just improved it. (End of this chapter)