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After more than ten days of preparation, the Japanese First Army decided to implement the operational plan code-named No. 1, which planned that the 36th and 37th Divisions would attack Xinxiang, the northern gate of Zheng County, directly from Changzhi.

The 114th Division, led by its commander, Lieutenant General Shigeharu Suematsu, stormed Jincheng, an important town in southern Shanxi that was still in the hands of the National Army.

The 3rd Independent Mixed Brigade stayed behind. This time, they did not set any battle objectives. They just wanted to take advantage of the chaos caused by the severe drought in Zhongyuan Province to fish in troubled waters and test the strength of the First War Zone.

This time, the Japanese planned to dispatch three divisions with a total of more than 60,000 troops to attack Guofu's troops nearby.

This caused the First and Second War Zones of the National Army to be in a state of panic, and urgent telegrams were sent to the mountain city one after another.

The Japanese haven't made any major moves for nearly several months. No one can be sure why they suddenly launched an attack this time or what their specific target is.

Even Yan Laoxi, who had been flirting with the Japanese for some time, was frightened. It was his fault that his negotiations with the Japanese ended in failure.

Of course, it was only temporary, and they would continue to keep in touch. He was also afraid that the Japanese might not get the results they wanted from him.

So, in anger, he planned to march his troops westward and wipe out the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army, which only controlled a dozen counties.

Fortunately, two days later, a message came from the Eighth Route Army, and they informed Guosu of the Japanese's attack targets, marching routes, etc.

The intelligence has arrived! But Guofu didn't dare to easily believe the intelligence provided by the Communist Party.

But they did not just sit there and wait for death. Large numbers of troops from the First and Second War Zones began to secretly gather in several cities mentioned in the intelligence.

At the same time, the troops in Zhongtiao Mountain, led by General Wei, were ready to rush down Zhongtiao Mountain to attack the Japanese-occupied areas at any time.

But the Japanese did not know at first that their intelligence had been leaked, and they still launched their offensive according to the predetermined attack direction.

You have to say that Chiang Ting-wen's First War Zone had 30 troops and had already obtained the enemy's specific targets, but still failed to defend the city.

The 7 national army troops were defeated by the Japanese 2th Division with less than 1.3 soldiers, and of them were directly wiped out.

At the same time, nearly 10,000 troops were captured, and the attack of the 37th Division was not as smooth as that of the 36th Division.

They encountered desperate resistance from the Sichuan Army. Although the Sichuan Army was poorly equipped, these short soldiers from the southwest.

However, they were fearless and brave on the battlefield. Commanders like Li Jiayu and Wang Mingzhang even rushed directly to the front line and engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese.

The offensives of the Japanese 37th Division were broken time and time again, but the troops suffered heavy casualties.

The 114th Division was facing the elite troops of the Central Army in Zhongtiao Mountain. As soon as they appeared on the battlefield, six divisions of the Central Army rushed over.

This shocked Shigeharu Suematsu, who immediately stopped advancing and switched to defending on the spot, as the lesson of Taizhuang was still fresh in his mind.

It was the Fifth Division that underestimated the enemy and advanced rashly, which led to the Locust Army suffering a rare defeat and heavy damage there.

Now his own 114th Division is no match for the permanent th Division, so Shigeharu Suematsu strengthened the defense on the spot while informing the First Army of the sudden changes here.

And combined with the experiences of the three divisions, why is it so coincidental that wherever the locust army attacks, there are heavy Chinese troops guarding it? This is worth pondering.

So he secretly reminded General Yoshio Shinozuka that there was a possibility that the intelligence of the Locust Army's operation had been leaked.

Yoshio Shinozuka, commander of the First Army stationed in Taiy, received telegrams from three divisions.

It seemed that the three divisions all had large numbers of Chinese troops on their way to attack, as if they had been waiting for them for a long time.

However, the Chinese troops that the 114th Division faced were all ragtag troops and were defeated at the first blow, while the th Division and the th Division were more troublesome.

The 114th Division in particular had just planned to attack when they discovered that six or seven division-level units of the Nationalist Army's Central Army suddenly appeared in the surrounding area, cutting off their retreat.

However, this did not cause Shigeharu Suematsu to panic. Facing more than 50,000 national troops, he could not say much about the attack, but the defense would not be a big problem.

Yoshio Shinozuka immediately convened the main personnel of Tai Y's First Army for a discussion. The content of the meeting was to deal with the current situation of the three divisions and to conduct a secret investigation into the internal leak.

Yoshio Shinozuka did not dare to report this matter. If General Okamura knew that there might have been a leak within the First Army, he, as the commander of the First Army, would probably be in trouble.

This time, in order to act cautiously, they did not notify or inform the personnel of the Imperial Army. Even some Japanese middle-level officers who were not very satisfied with the policies of the Locust Country would be put under surveillance.

It has always been easy for the Locust Country to obtain intelligence from China. When did their people infiltrate the Locust Army?

Wang Chun and other senior officers of the puppet army were all called to the theater these days and were provided with good food and drink, but their itineraries for the next few days had to be clearly explained.

And who they had contacted must be made clear. Not only these puppet soldiers were investigated, but also some Japanese officers were investigated like them.

However, since puppet army officers were the focus of scrutiny, Wang Chun naturally had to be investigated as well.

In fact, the Japanese did not consider Wang Chun as a suspect at all.

During these few days, Japanese spies lurking inside Guofu sent information that this time the First Army's military operation was provided to Guofu by the Communist Eighth Route Army.

It was not provided by Guosu's Military Control Commission and Central Control Commission personnel lurking inside the Locust Army.

It is absolutely impossible for a security army officer like Wang Chun, who had been fighting with the Eighth Route Army and had the blood of many Communist Party members on his hands, to contact the Eighth Route Army privately.

Moreover, it was impossible for the Eighth Route Army to believe the intelligence of this guy whose hands were stained with the blood of his comrades. Up to now, the troops of the Model Division were still attacking the Eighth Route Army's base.

Even though he knew he was relatively safe, Wang Chun was still scared and broke out in a cold sweat. He had to get away from the Japanese as soon as possible. The feeling of putting his life and death in the hands of others was very bad.

This investigation still found a lot of problematic personnel, including several puppet soldiers who defected from the National Army and still had contact with that side.

In fact, these traitors and puppet soldiers just want to have another way out and don't want to put all their eggs in one basket. When the Japanese are no longer able to do so, they can continue to rely on the arms of the preserved fruits.

It was this kind of two-faced approach that cost them their lives. The Japanese actually knew what these guys were thinking.

But there was no other way. This time someone had to take the blame, and the Eighth Route Army also knew that this time the information sent by Wang Chun would be passed on to Guo Su.

It would inevitably bring a lot of trouble to Wang Chun, so the intelligence personnel of the Eighth Route Army deliberately fabricated letters of contact with some puppet army traitors, deliberately letting the Japanese find them.

One of them is a guy who has some connection with the preserved fruits. He was originally a notorious jerk among the preserved fruits.

Now that they have surrendered to Japan, they have become even more brutal and cruel than the Japanese invaders in treating Chinese people.

This time, they took advantage of the intelligence leak to pin the blame on this guy, because a shopkeeper who had been doing business with him was an intelligence agent of the Eighth Route Army.

The unfortunate puppet army brigade commander and the regiment commander of a military intelligence officer under him were shot.

After dealing with the problem of the internal leaker, the Japanese army turned all its attention back to the 114th Division that was surrounded after rushing down from Zhongtiao Mountain.