Check in from the bright sword

Taiyuan, the headquarters of the Japanese First Army.

Seeing Yoshio Shinozuka put down the walkie-talkie, Takashi Tanaka said inexplicably: "Your Excellency, it is useless for the Yamamoto Special Forces to stay in Liao County. The same task can be done by an infantry search team. Why does it have to be a team?" The special agent team that spent a lot of money is responsible? This is a waste of resources!"

"If the special agent team can be transferred back, it can just take on the task of investigating where the main force of the 386 brigade is, and we don't have to wait passively, let alone guess like we are now."

Shinozuka Yoshio remained silent, he actually wanted to call the secret service team back.

But he also knew that Kazuki Yamamoto was extremely proud in his heart.

In the eyes of Kazuki Yamamoto, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army could barely become the target of their secret service team, but the 386 brigade was not even qualified to be the target.

Takashi Tanaka said: "Your Excellency, Commander, you are too used to Yamamoto-kun."

"Tanaka-kun, stop talking." Yoshio Shinozuka waved his hand and said, "Compared to the 386th Brigade, the Eighth Route Army headquarters and the main force of the Eighth Route Army in the Taiyue bandit area are more threatening."

"So Yamamoto-kun made the right choice."

"I fully support that as well."

"Hayi." Longji Tanaka could only pause helplessly, and continued, "Then what should we do now? Xiang County has fallen, and the southward detachment of the 386th Brigade has gone straight to Changzhi!"

"The performance of the northward detachment of the 386th brigade is surprising."

"I beat Yu County for half the night, but I didn't take it down."

"You know, there is only one gendarmerie squadron in Yu County."

"Therefore, I seriously suspect that the Northward Detachment of the 386th Brigade is a partial division, because they did not use artillery in the battle to attack Yu County, but only used infantry to charge."

"On the other hand, the southward detachment of the 386th Brigade used artillery to attack Xiangxian County."

"In less than two hours, the gendarmerie squadron in Shouxiang County was defeated."

Shinozuka Yoshio shook his head and said, "This may also be the 386 Brigade's eye-catching method."

"Show eyes?" Tanaka Longji said, "Your Excellency Commander, you mean that the 386th Brigade's Northward Detachment didn't use artillery on purpose? It's just to induce us to make wrong judgments, right?"

"This possibility cannot be ruled out." Shinozuka Yoshio said.

"What can we do?" Takashi Tanaka frowned and said, "The northward and southward detachments of the 386th Brigade have never been able to figure out which is the main force and which is the partial division?"

"The 37th Division cannot follow suit."

"Are you really watching the 386 brigade capture Changzhi?"

"The townships and mountainous areas around Changzhi originally belonged to the guerrilla area of ​​the Eighth Route Army."

"It's only because it is divided into many small blocks by highways and several major counties, and it is difficult to connect them together, so it has not become a real bandit area."

"However, if Changzhi and the surrounding counties are all lost, this area will immediately become a whole, and it may become an actual bandit area. In this way, the manpower, material resources, and war mobilization capabilities of the Eighth Route Army will be unprecedentedly improved. The consequences are too serious, we cannot bear it!"

Yoshio Shinozuka frowned immediately.

Nozawa said: "Can you transfer two brigades from the 16th Brigade back to Changzhi?"

"It's useless." Tanaka Takashi shook his head and said, "If the southward detachment is the main force of the 386th brigade, then it is useless to transfer two infantry brigades from the 16th brigade to defend Changzhi."

"The two brigades can only increase the record of the 386 brigade."

"However, if the entire 16th Brigade is sent back to defend Changzhi, or simply let the 36th Division return to defend Lu'an, then the sweeping of the Eighth Route Army's bandit area in Taiyue will definitely be seriously affected."

"Operation Plan A is very likely to fall short."

The war room fell silent immediately, and no one dared to speak again.

Shinozuka Yoshio suddenly asked: "Where are the people from the special high school? Are you here?"

The head of the special high school, Hachio Kamezo, strode in immediately, paused and said, "General!"

Yoshio Shinozuka frowned and asked, "Your special high school has been cultivating in Shanxi for so many years, and your intelligence tentacles should have penetrated into every aspect. Have you found nothing?"

"I found it, I found it." Eight-tailed Turtle nodded, then shook his head and said, "But it doesn't mean we didn't find it."

"Baga!" Shinozuka Yoshio said angrily, "What do you mean? Did you find out or not?"

"Hayi." Eight-tailed turtle said suddenly, "We found that many prisoners of the Imperial Association Army in the northward detachment of the 386th Brigade were forced to change into Eighth Route Army uniforms, pretending to be the Eighth Route Army."

"Nani? Is there a prisoner of the Imperial Association Army pretending to be the Eighth Route Army?" Nozawa said, "So, only a small part of the northward detachment of the 386th Brigade is the real Eighth Route Army. It seems that it is really biased!"

"However." Eight-tailed Kamezo said again, "There are also Eighth Route Army soldiers who put on the uniforms of the Imperial Association Army and pretended to be prisoners of the Imperial Association Army."

"Nani?" Nozawa Norio said in astonishment, "While letting the prisoners of the Imperial Association Army impersonate the Eighth Route Army, and at the same time letting the Eighth Route Army impersonate the Imperial Association Army prisoners of war, what does the Eighth Route Army mean?"

Hachio Kamezo went on to say: "In fact, the southward detachment of the 386th Brigade has the same situation."

"Damn it, what a tough opponent!" Shinozuka Yoshio said, "It seems that the Eighth Route Army has long thought that the intelligence tentacles of your special high school have penetrated into every corner of the security area, so they deliberately did this. , we simply cannot tell how many Eighth Route Army soldiers went north, and how many Huang Xie Huang prisoners of war went south?"

"Hai." Eight-tailed Kamezo said with a wry smile, "That's why I said, it means nothing has been discovered."

"Okay, let's go." Shinozuka Yoshio impatiently waved his hand, signaling Yao Guizo to leave.

Watching the figure of the eight-tailed turtle leave, Tanaka Takashi snorted and said: "The people in the super high class are a bunch of waste, and they can't do such a small thing well."

Yoshio Shinozuka glared at Takashi Tanaka.

Tanaka Takashi shut up a little embarrassingly.

Yoshio Shinozuka's eyes fell on the map again, and he said: "Order, the infantry brigades of the 9th Brigade must maintain sufficient vigilance while advancing steadily forward."

"Beware of the main force of the 386 brigade turning around and attacking behind."

"Again, the military police squadrons of Tunliu, Shangdang, eldest son, and Huguan counties, as well as the garrison battalions of the Imperial Association Army, except for a small military police squad and a company of the Imperial Association Army stationed in each county, the rest of the troops are all shrunk to Changzhi and Lu'an is stationed."

"The surrounding counties do not have to defend, but the cities of Changzhi and Lu'an must not fall into the hands of the Eighth Route Army."

"In addition, the 37th Division can go east from Xinyuan County and leave Xixiang County. No matter which unit goes south or north, it is the main force of the 386 brigade. Let's cut off their retreat first!"

"Hai!" Takashi Tanaka nodded heavily.

Chapter 257

On the highway from Xiangxian County to Changzhi, the Guard Battalion of the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army and more than 772 commanders and fighters from the 3000nd Regiment were carrying more than 5000 puppet prisoners of war to the south.

Although the Eighth Route Army guarded them very strictly, puppet prisoners of war still sneaked away from time to time.

Fortunately, Wang Yan had expected this, so instead of providing effective intelligence to the Japanese army, the escaped puppet prisoners of war made the Japanese army headquarters even more confused.

Until now, the Japanese Army Command has not figured out where the main force of the 386th Brigade is.