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Seeing this, Shinozuka Yoshio could only step out to smooth things over, saying with a smile:

"Matsui-kun is one of us, just speak your mind without hiding anything."

After hearing this, Matsui's expression finally eased, but there are some things that it is better not to listen to, so as not to cause trouble.

The creed of the Fourth Division is: Don’t do anything that doesn’t make money, and don’t do anything that is thankless.

Besides, looking at Yamamoto Ikki's expression, he must know that there was a problem with their most important material transfer center. This is a matter related to the overall situation on the front line. No wonder this grandson is so anxious.

In fact, before he came, they had already received the news that You County was occupied by the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army. After Chu Yunfei entered the city, the people from the Osaka Merchant Corps sent a telegram in the secret room to report the matter to the headquarters.

The Osaka Merchant Group has such people who specialize in gathering information all over the country. They usually dress similarly to the Chinese and mingle in the market every day. They are not interested in military affairs or politics and only care about ways to make money.

However, Division Commander Matsui did not tell anyone that the county seat of Youxian had been captured, which was exactly what he wanted. Now he could settle many accounts.

For example, some of the military rations were saved by the 4th Division. They were a bit old and the quantity was insufficient. Many of them were inferior and passed off as good ones. No one would pay attention to these on the battlefield, and no one would check.

The current situation is the best. All evidence will be submerged in the long river of history. It is estimated that the handover personnel and account books of Youxian warehouse will no longer exist, and all the benefits will fall into the pockets of the Fourth Division.

At the same time, the people of the Osaka Merchant Corps hiding in You County will go to the warehouse to confirm and destroy all evidence as soon as the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army retreats.

Their Fourth Division has done a lot of things like this and has accumulated rich experience, and no one can find out the difference from the accounts.

Moreover, he could fully take advantage of this incident to increase the amount of materials transferred to You County by 10%, and make a fortune from it. This was why he wanted to leave in a hurry.

Sure enough, when Yoshio Shinozuka learned that gunshots were heard from the direction of Youxian, he became anxious and angry. This place was too critical, involving the lifeline of the front-line combat troops. Now that it was lost, the First Army was in big trouble.

Not knowing exactly what was happening over there, he could only send a large number of intelligence personnel to investigate, and also ordered the combat troops at the front to shrink the front line and save ammunition.

If the situation changes, the main force must withdraw quickly. If the losses are too great, his career as commander will probably be over.

Even Yamamoto Ikki's suggestion that if Youxian fell, planes must be mobilized to bomb Youxian's material warehouses to prevent the Eighth Route Army from getting an advantage was sternly rejected by him.

He felt that the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army should be a small harassment force and there was no need to make a fuss. He felt that the current battle situation could be rescued and that they could not just admit defeat.

Tonight passed by in the excitement, happiness, sadness, depression and entanglement of countless people. When some were happy, some were sad, and the total amount of both sides was almost the same. This is the legendary law of conservation.

Li Yunlong hardly slept at night, mainly because he was too excited and couldn't fall asleep at all. The others were similar, and they all put their full concentration into transporting supplies.

Even at the suggestion of our intelligence personnel lurking in Youxian County, at least tens of thousands of ordinary people were recruited to participate in the transportation in exchange for food or money.

Especially the families of many intelligence personnel, men, women, young and old, all took part in the battle. Women were responsible for cooking, the elderly were responsible for organizing personnel, and even children helped to deliver some unimportant news.

After this mission is completed, all our intelligence personnel lurking in You County will be evacuated to our base to prevent the Japanese from getting angry and retaliating.

When many of the county residents who were summoned heard that it was the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army and the Eighth Route Army that attacked the city and killed all the Japanese devils in the city, they took the initiative to go out of their homes to help their own army.

Those who can take the initiative to come forward to help are all passionate and conscientious Chinese people. Originally, no one wanted anything, they just wanted to do something for their own army to show their gratitude.

However, Li Yunlong had already made a plan for this situation before the war. The supplies in the Japanese warehouses were piled up like mountains, and there was no chance to transport them away.

In the end, Li Yunlong rewarded every young and middle-aged man and woman who was willing to help with 200 kilograms of grain, 10 silver dollars, and some cotton, salt and other daily necessities.

The Japanese have opened many trading companies in You County. These things must not be left to the enemy. Instead, they should be distributed to the common people who are willing to contribute.

The reason given was very simple: the Japanese would definitely retaliate afterwards, especially those who helped transport supplies, who would become the enemy's priority targets.

After this battle, everyone can take these things to seek refuge with relatives in the countryside, and the whole family can hold out for about half a year, and then come back after the storm has passed.

Of course, if you really have no relatives to rely on, you can also follow the main force back to the Eighth Route Army’s base, where everyone’s life will definitely be settled.

Thanks to the fact that the Eighth Route Army had recently won many victories and seized a large amount of supplies, the economy of the base area has gradually developed and the lives of the people have improved a lot.

Those people in the city who were willing to take huge risks and leave their homes to help were all people who cared about this country and this nation. Among them were many highly qualified talents, who were exactly the elites needed for the great industrial development of the Eighth Route Army's base area.

These people will follow the independent regiment back and help transport supplies at the same time, which is simply killing two birds with one stone.

Li Yunlong first asked people to transport weapons, ammunition, canned meat and compressed biscuits to the city gate, so that when other troops arrived, they could get supplies nearby.

Old Sun is the chief of Sunjia Village, which is near You County, only about ten miles away from the county seat.

At 10 o'clock this evening, he was sleeping soundly on his kang when suddenly there was a "bang bang" knock on the door of his yard, and the sound was very urgent.

Old Sun got up quickly and lit the lamp. He put on a coat, lit the oil lamp, and walked out of the room, shouting:

"Who is it? It's late at night and we've all gone to bed."

I only heard a familiar voice coming from outside the courtyard gate: "Uncle Sun, I'm Xiao Huang, the district committee has an urgent task."

When Old Sun heard that his superior had an urgent task, he quickly quickened his pace, quickly came to the yard, opened the door, and didn't even notice that his coat had fallen to the ground.

After welcoming the person in, he asked anxiously:

"Xiao Huang, what is the mission from the superior?"

The correspondent Xiao Huang took a breath and then said in a low voice:

"Our Eighth Route Army has taken You County. Secretary Quan asked me to come here to inform you to lead the Sunjia Village militia team and all vehicles that can transport materials to participate in the transportation work."

"This mission is extremely urgent. There must be no delays, and confidentiality must be maintained."

"Okay, the mission has been completed. I still have to go to the next village. You have to hurry up."