I am a wolf warrior

However, as soon as the words fell, another communication staff officer hurried in.

"Your Excellency, Commander." The communications staff paused and said, "The Maguan stronghold reported that an Eighth Route Army with about [-] soldiers is rapidly heading south along the Tongpu Railway."

"Shimonoseki stronghold?" Yoshio Iwamatsu turned around and walked quickly to the north wall of the war room.

Hua Guzheng also walked quickly to Yoshio Iwamatsu, then pointed to the map posted on the north wall and said: "Your Excellency, Commander, please look here, this is the Shimonoseki stronghold."

Yoshio Iwamatsu made a rough visual inspection, and said in a deep voice, "It's only ten kilometers away from Taiyuan?"

"Yes, it's only about ten kilometers." Hua Guzheng paused, then turned back to ask the communications staff officer, "Shibuya-kun, how did the Shimonoseki base find this eighth route?"

The communication staff said: "The Maguan stronghold has deployed a large number of eyeliners in various villages within ten kilometers around. This news was reported by the eyeliner in the farthest village. Oh yes, that village has already made a phone call."

Hua Guzheng said: "This means that the Eighth Route Army is still [-] kilometers away from Taiyuan."

Yoshio Iwamatsu said: "Order the Xincheng Airport Guard Team to send out scouts for verification."

"Hai." The communication staff paused, and hurried back to the communication class to convey the order.

Watching the figure of the communications staff go away, Hua Gu was looking back, and said again: "Your Excellency, Commander, it is just a regiment of the Eighth Route Army. It seems that there is no need to use the airport garrison for verification."

"Don't be careless." Yoshio Iwamatsu said, "It's better to be careful."

Hua Guzheng didn't say anything more.

……

Niuwang Village.

Under the cover of night, Niu Er quietly came to Baogudi at the entrance of the village.

Niu Er is the eyeliner placed by the devils in the Maguan stronghold in Niuwang Village, but even if he is a dog's leg, it is not often that he can get a bone with meat.

For example, during the recent period, Niu Er has not received any rewards.

Niu Er eats too much and is lazy, and lives in misery without rewards.

After being hungry all day, Niu Er sneaked into the cornfield at the head of the village after the villagers were fast asleep, ready to break off a few bunches of corn sticks and eat them.

However, after breaking off several bundles, there were only corn sticks and no grains.

Because it is too early now, the bract grains have not grown yet.

"Grass, are you going to starve Grandpa to death?" Niu Er cursed.

At this moment, a fire suddenly lit up in the direction of the road ahead.

"What's the situation?" Niu Er's heart skipped a beat, and he turned over and lay down on the Baogu ground.

After a while, this team appeared near Baogudi with torches.

Because of the firelight, Niu Er could easily see the military uniform of this team.

It's the Eighth Route Army!Niu Er was overjoyed at once, and immediately retreated backwards to the depths of Baogudi, then sped out of Baogudi from the other side, and rushed towards the Maguan stronghold several kilometers away.

In less than a moment, Niu Er arrived outside the Maguan stronghold.

"Who is it?" A puppet soldier shouted sharply, "Stop!"

"Taijun, I want to see Taijun Shimada." Niu Erlian shouted, "I have an important military report to Taijun Shimada."

"Niu Sang?" A ghost second lieutenant quickly appeared at the gate of the Maguan stronghold, and said in blunt Chinese, "Is what you want to report to me about an Eighth Route Army?"

"Ah?" Niu Er was stunned, "Taijun, do you know?"

"Nonsense." Second Lieutenant Guizi said coldly, "How can I not know about such a big movement?"

"Taijun, is this considered effective information?" Niu Er asked obsequiously, "Is there any reward?"

"Baga, this is not valid information." Second Lieutenant Guizi said in a deep voice, "I also know that the Eighth Route Army has entered your Niuwang Village, so go back and keep an eye on them for me."

"Hayi." Niu Er walked back in despair.

……

Needless to say, it was the First Battalion of the Independent Regiment led by Zhang Dabiao who entered Niuwang Village.

Niuwang Village was already in the hinterland of the Japanese-occupied area, and there were neither strongholds nor artillery towers here, so the First Battalion did not encounter any resistance during the process of occupying the village.

In normal times, Zhang Dabiao would definitely not dare to come here to fight local tyrants.

Or even if they came, they would definitely not dare to stay for a long time, at most they would harass them a little bit, and then they would run away with oil on the soles of their feet.

But now, Zhang Dabiao has no scruples, because now the main force of the Japanese army in Shanxi has gathered in the southeast of Shanxi and is sweeping the Taihang base area, leaving the entire Jinzhong area empty of troops.

The devils and puppet soldiers in the nearby stronghold heard that they were coming, and they were probably hiding in the stronghold trembling.

As soon as he entered the village, Zhang Dabiao sternly issued an order: "One company and two companies will be on guard, and three companies will surround the whole village. The guards will go into the village to arrest people, and I will arrest the maintenance chairman."

With an order, a battalion of officers and soldiers quickly moved into action.

The soldiers of the fourth company who had no mission could only rest on the spot.

As the guard platoon rushed into the village, the originally quiet Niuwang Village immediately became agitated.

In less than a moment, a man with a melon cap on his head and an elegant black silk gown slipped over with his hands tied behind his back by two soldiers from the guard platoon.

Zhang Dabiao stared at him coldly,

The man in the melon skin hat immediately fell to his knees with a plop.

Zhang Dabiao said coldly: "Are you the maintenance president of Niuwang Village?"

"Yes, yes." The man in the melon skin hat replied hastily, "Little old Wang Changgui, he is the maintenance president of Niuwang Village."

"Your surname is Wang?" Zhang Dabiao cursed with a look of disdain at the corner of his mouth, "Does your bastard deserve the surname Wang?"

"Yes, yes, the old man is not worthy of the surname Wang." Wang Changgui didn't dare to protest at all, and hurriedly said, "The old man is not worthy."

When Zhang Dabiao was about to continue the interrogation, there was a sudden sound of horseshoes in the direction of Tongpu Road, and then a cavalry appeared at the entrance of Niuwang Village.

"Deputy Chief of Staff Zhang!"

Nearly a hundred meters away, the cavalry shouted loudly from a distance.

"It's Squad Leader Gu of the Communications Squad." Zhang Dabiao said in a deep voice, "It is estimated that there is a new combat mission."

After a while, Gu Xiaobei rushed to Zhang Dabiao on a fast horse like a storm, panting, "Deputy Chief of Staff Zhang, an urgent order from the headquarters."

Zhang Dabiao quickly stood up and stood at attention.

Gu Xiaobei added: "Raise food and grass on the spot, prepare dry rice breakfast for 3 people, and fodder for [-] mules and horses. Build defensive fortifications in a timely manner, and prepare to stop the Japanese army going south from Anhua."

Zhang Dabiao said loudly: "Yes!"

Gu Xiaobei immediately rode away.

Watching Gu Xiaobei go away, Zhang Dabiao turned his gaze to Wang Changgui again, and said coldly, "Did you hear what you said just now? Now I will give you a chance to redeem your sins."

"As long as you can prepare breakfast for 3 people before dawn, remember, do it!"

"There is also enough grass to feed [-] mules and horses, and enough beans to feed [-] war horses."

"As long as you can accomplish these things, you don't have to pursue the past, and we will spare you."

"Yes, yes, yes." Wang Changgui still didn't dare to resist in the slightest, and hurriedly said, "It must be done, let's do it, little old man, let's do it now."

……

The night passed.

Nearly dawn, the independent regiment, the new first regiment and the new second regiment drove to Niuwang Village along the Tongpu Highway. At this time, the first battalion of the independent regiment, which was the vanguard, had already prepared breakfast .

Breakfast is freshly steamed white flour buns, which are placed in a big basket along the side of the road, along with broth.

In addition to white flour steamed buns and broth, there are also horse troughs in the Baogu fields on both sides of the road. There are ready-made fodder and fried beans in the horse trough.

Therefore, when the large troops passed by, they did not stop for a moment.

The soldiers always grabbed a handful of white flour buns, one in their mouths, a few in their satchels, and two more in their hands. They ate while marching south, and stopped to drink a bowl of broth when they were really thirsty.

The cavalry had to dismount and lead the horses to the cornfields to feed them.

Wang Ye will be marching with Ding Wei's new regiment headquarters.

It was already past seven o'clock in the morning when the regiment headquarters of Xinyi Group arrived at Niuwang Village.

At this time, Li Yunlong had already brought the main force of the independent regiment over, and now the members of the new first regiment were passing, and Kong Jie's new second regiment was still behind.

There is a large army of nearly 3 people, and the marching army is more than ten miles long.

After marching all night, Ding Wei and Wang Ye were also hungry. Just as they were about to stop for breakfast, the loud roar of an airplane engine suddenly sounded in the air ahead.

At this time, the Eighth Route Army has already summed up a whole set of experience because it has been bombed more by the devil's aviation.

Almost at the moment when the roar of the plane engine was heard, a sharp whistle sounded in the marching ranks. Hearing the sharp whistle, the marching ranks on the road quickly dispersed and hid themselves in the streets on both sides of the road. Baogudi, even the four Meiji 38-style 75mm caliber field guns in the queue were pushed into Baogudi for the first time.

The rolling green gauze tents provided excellent cover for the Eighth Route Army.

I have to say that it is really good to choose this time to send troops to Taiyuan!

Not only the marching troops, but even the soldiers of the first battalion carried baskets full of white flour steamed buns and large wooden barrels full of broth into the Baogu field beside the road.

Ding Wei grabbed a white-faced steamed bun from the basket, chewed and said, "This is a bad thing because the army has grown in size. There is no way to march in cover like before."

"When there were only a group of thousands of people before, how could such things happen?"

"What kind of reconnaissance, what kind of logistics support, and what kind of emergency plan, there is none."

"Whether it was when I was in the Jizhong Military Region or later when I was in the Taihang Military Region, as long as I have an idea, I always leave as soon as I say it. A long-distance rapid march at night will be a hundred miles away without anyone noticing."

Wang Ye said: "The underlying logic of fighting with a large army is completely different from that of a sneak attack by a small army."

"That's not true." Ding Wei said, "A sneak attack by a small group of troops pays attention to flexibility and suddenness, but it is impossible to be flexible and maneuverable when fighting with a large group of troops. There are too many restrictions in all aspects."

Wang Ye said with a smile: "Commander Ding, this is only a large army of 3 to 10 people. In the not-too-distant future, when the Japanese devils are beaten away, there will definitely be a large army of tens of thousands or even millions of people." Combat, at that time the movement will be big, so we have to accumulate and summarize the experience in this area now, so as not to be caught off guard and suffer a big loss."

What Wang Ye said was not just nonsense. In the early days of the Liberation War, the People's Liberation Army really suffered a lot in this regard.

"Don't tell me, it's really necessary." Ding Wei nodded and said, "You are really good, the battle plan you made this time is an eye-opener for my old Ding. I dare say that at this stage, all of our Eighth Route Army It is impossible for one of the staff members of the staff to formulate a more rigorous battle plan than your kid."

"No, no, Commander Ding, you're flattering me too much."

Wang Ye said hastily, "I absolutely dare not take those words seriously."

While the two were talking, two Zero fighter jets appeared in the southeast sky.

Then two Zero fighter jets swooped down quickly, but they didn't swoop down toward Baogudi where a large number of Eighth Route Army was hidden, but toward Niuwang Village.

First drop bombs, then swoop and shoot.

After raging for more than ten minutes, the two Zero fighters flew away.

"Grass!" Ding Wei walked out of Baogu, spat at the direction where the Devil fighter was flying away, and said in a hateful voice, "When will our Eighth Route Army have its own air force?"

Wang Yezhi said that this is a bit difficult, and I am afraid that it will have to wait after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Ding Wei was still worried about the safety of the cannon, so he called the artillery company commander Liu Mangang to the front and said: "Liu Lianchang, further ahead is the Taiyuan effective area, which is densely populated, which is not conducive to the concealment of the cannon, so don't go any further for now. , just hide here and wait for orders, and catch up before it gets dark."

Liu Mantan said with a smile: "Leader, you and Captain Li thought about going together."

"Li Yunlong?" Ding Wei asked in amazement, "He also left Pao Lian here?"

"That's not true." Liu Mantan said with a smile, "I saw Lao Tu just now in Baogu."

The old Tu that Liu Mangang talked about was Tu Feng, the commander of the artillery company directly under the Independence Regiment, and an old comrade in arms of Liu Mangang.

Wang Ye laughed and said: "This is called a hero who sees the same thing. Commander Ding and our regiment leader both thought of going together. Anyway, today is just cleaning up the periphery of Taiyuan. There should be no cannons for the time being. There are grenades and mortars." Will suffice."

"After all, it's because we don't have an air force." Ding Wei said, "So we have to think a little more than the enemy. How can our artillery be effective and survive?"

After a pause, he said again: "We can use the Baogu land to hide during the march, but it will not be so easy to hide outside the city of Taiyuan."

"In fact, there are still ways." Wang Ye said with a smile.

After a pause, he continued: "And there are many ways. The most common method is to cover the cannon with a camouflage net, so that the devil's plane can basically not tell which is the artillery position and which is the crop field from high altitude. If the terrain allows, You can even hide the cannon directly in the air-raid shelter, so you won’t be afraid of plane bombing.”

"Don't say it, it's a good idea." Ding Wei said with bright eyes.

"There are many hills outside Taiyuan City, and many cave dwellings have been built on the hills."

"Slightly modify these cave dwellings and camouflage them, it will be an excellent artillery position."

"Regimental Commander Ding, in fact, the artillery position has been selected a long time ago." Wang Ye took out a map from his satchel after finishing speaking.

Ding Wei came over to take a look, but found that it was the Taiyuan City Defense Map. In the northeast and northwest corners outside Taiyuan City, there were several small circles drawn with red pencils.

"Captain Ding, look here, and here."