Anti-Japanese War: I have unlimited assistance

Chapter 45

The sky was just getting bright.

BAA Baa baa--

Accompanied by the bleating of sheep, two shepherds wearing cotton jackets and trousers and white cloth on their heads appeared.

The two shepherds were unfamiliar with the way they were driving their flocks, starting from the north bank of the Hutuo River and heading towards the stone bridge.

These two shepherds were none other than the two Japanese scouts of the Dike Detachment, Tsuchiya Mie and Iijima Masaaki. Tsuchiya Mie served as the visible sentry, while Iijima Masaaki served as the covert sentry.

Because they were both older, Di Bujiagui thought they had the temperament of shepherds, so he sent them here to conduct reconnaissance.

It’s not that Di Bujiagui thinks the Chinese army will come here to ambush.

Instead, he believed that if the Chinese army wanted to attack the Japanese army's transportation supply line from Daixian to Xinkou.

They will definitely come here to scout, and when they come here to scout, they will definitely ask the shepherd about the situation.

but…

Captain Chen of the 769th Regiment and Li Yunlong both came here to conduct reconnaissance, but they both saw through the shepherd's fake identity at a glance.

The two Japanese soldiers crossed the stone bridge and drove the flock of sheep towards the south bank. The Japanese soldiers on the stone bridge did not stop them.

After crossing the stone bridge, the two shepherds kept some distance between themselves, and the shepherd in front drove the flock towards the slope.

Gradually, Tuwuqi drove the sheep into the slope, and the sheep began to look for tender grass to eat.

Masaaki Iijima also quickly disappeared into the grass, always paying attention to every move around him.

Masaaki Iijima was distracted for a moment, and when he looked up at Tsuchiya Kei's location, he found that Tsuchiya Kei had disappeared.

at this time.

Tuwu was attracted by some unusual movement in the grass, so he quietly bent down and walked over to check the situation.

Tuwuwei judged that the noise was most likely caused by hares and pheasants.

I've been herding sheep in this wilderness all day, and my mouth is almost dry, but I can't kill the sheep to eat.

Everything in the village was looted by the cavalry. If we can get a hare or a pheasant, we can have a treat tonight.

Tuwu picked up a stone and walked towards the grass where there was any movement. If he found a pheasant or a rabbit, he would throw the stone at it.

Just as Tuwuqi was bent over and moving towards the bushes with full concentration, a large hand like a palm-leaf fan suddenly stretched out from the bushes on the side like lightning.

Tsuchiya Kei was also an experienced old scout and responded immediately.

But that hand was even faster, and it pinned Tsuchiya Kei to the ground in an instant. Just as he was about to fight back, several figures around him quickly pressed up and pinned him down.

I'm just an old shepherd...

You young people have no moral principles!
Coming for a sneak attack?

Soon, Tuwu Kei struggled a few times and his consciousness fell into endless darkness.

Masaaki Iijima smelled something wrong. Under normal circumstances, the visible sentry would not disappear from the sight of the hidden sentry.

He bent his body and hid in the grass towards the flock of sheep. His whole body was tense, ready to draw his gun as soon as he realized something was wrong.

Suddenly, Iijima Masaaki saw Tsuchiya Kei standing up from behind, holding a pheasant in his hand.

"Yoshi!"

When Masaaki Iijima saw this scene, a smile appeared on his face and his tense body relaxed.

Just when Masaaki Iijima relaxed his vigilance, several figures rushed out from around him like lightning and pressed him to the ground.

"Woooooooo..."

Masaaki Iijima whimpered a few times, then was hit hard on the back of his head and fainted instantly.

The Japanese soldiers on the bridge looked at the slope from time to time, but found nothing unusual.

……

at the same time.

Dai County seat.

Outside the Japanese military headquarters, 100 small trucks loaded with soldiers and combat supplies were parked neatly.

The combat supplies that the Japanese were going to transport to the Xinkou front had already been prepared.

The stone bridge had been blown up for two days, and tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers on the Xinkou front were crying out for food.

"Report to the detachment commander." Inside the headquarters, Tsutsumi Bujiagui was wiping the lieutenant colonel's sword with a white handkerchief when a radio operator hurried in, holding a telegram in his hand:

"Lieutenant General Itagaki just sent a telegram saying that the fighting on the front lines is intense. He ordered the Dike Detachment to transport combat supplies to the Xinkou front as quickly as possible!"

While reporting, the radio operator handed the telegram to Di Bujiagui.

Di Bujiagui took the telegram and read it with the usual vicious and cold expression of a Japanese officer on his face.

The intensity of the Battle of Xinkou exceeded the expectations of Tsutsumi Fukaki and even Itagaki Seishirō.

In Itagaki's battle plan, with the 5th Division as the main force of the locust army, it would take only 15 days at most to occupy the entire Shanxi Province, cross the Yellow River and continue to attack southward.

but!

The 5th Division was tricked by the Eighth Route Army at Pingxingguan.

At Xinkou, the Chinese army again put up a stubborn resistance. Although the 5st Brigade of the 21th Division was powerful, it defeated nearly 10 Chinese divisions in succession.

However, the Chinese army still showed an attitude of fighting to the end in Xinkou.

To fight an offensive, even if the logistical supply lines are cut off, there must be sufficient combat supplies.

Itagaki Seishirō understood this clearly.

Although the Japanese on the Xinkou front still had some combat supplies.

But now the transportation line from Datong to Daixian has been cut off by the Eighth Route Army, so Itagaki Seishirō wants to transport all the combat supplies in Daixian to the front line as soon as possible to avoid any further complications.

"I understand." After reading the telegram, Di Bujiagui nodded expressionlessly.

He walked out of the headquarters and looked at his watch. It was already nine o'clock in the morning.

It's a sunny day today.

Looking at the Di Detachment and the 2nd Quartermaster Company of the st Mixed Brigade that were ready to go, Di Bujiagui raised his right hand.

He was about to give the order to depart, but suddenly changed the subject: "Mr. Yongze, have you connected the telephone lines to Gang County and Wangdongbao Bridge?"

A few days ago, the Eighth Route Army bombarded the Daixian Airport, telephone lines were cut off, and the Wangdongbao Bridge was blown up.

Adjutant Major Nagase Shogo lowered his head and replied, "Captain, all the phone lines to Gang County and Wangdongbao Bridge have been connected!"

Di Bujiagui: "Orders: Send five Type 5 trucks, one with soldiers and four with combat supplies, to the Xinkou front. After reaching Wangdongbao Bridge and Gang County, the soldiers will call Dai County, the locust army headquarters."

According to intelligence, there is an Eighth Route Army in the Chinese army. This Eighth Route Army does not take the usual route and specifically targets the locust army's transport teams.

The logistics unit of the 5th Division at Pingxingguan was ambushed by this group of the Eighth Route Army.

Although there is almost no terrain suitable for ambush on the road from Daixian to Xinkou.

However, the embankment is still built with caution. There is an old Chinese saying that goes, "A boat sails a thousand miles in peace."

The empire's combat supplies were not obtained by plunder and must not fall into the hands of the Chinese army.

Therefore, Di Bujiagui planned to send a transport team to explore the route first.

"Hi!" Nagasawa Nakago lowered his head, turned around and made arrangements.

……

At noon.

Tsutsumi Fukaki had just finished lunch when he received a telegram from Itagaki Seishirō urging him to transport combat supplies to the front line as soon as possible.

"Detachment leader."

Adjutant Nagasawa Shogo walked in quickly:

"I just received a call from Gang County. The transport team we sent out has arrived in Gang County."

"Yoshi!"

Di Bujiagui stood up with a stern look on his face and walked out of the headquarters.

I looked at my watch and it was already 12: noon.

"Set off."

Tsutsumi Fukaki, dressed in the uniform of a lieutenant colonel, waved his white-gloved right hand forward.

At the entrance of the Japanese headquarters, accompanied by the hum of car engines, a huge transport convoy drove out of the west city gate and headed towards Xinkou.

……

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