A magazine of 30,000 rounds, you call it Hanyang

"Captain Zheng, Captain Zheng, our commander asked me to report to you that we have intercepted Yamamoto Ikki and are currently engaged in a fierce battle. I request your immediate support."

Two plainly dressed soldiers carrying Type 38 rifles were led by Chen Shengli to Zheng Kaixuan, Li Yunlong and others.

Yamamoto was intercepted?

Zheng Kaixuan was stunned when he heard this.

He and Li Yunlong, Zhao Gang, Xing Zhiguo and others looked at each other, all with puzzled expressions.

"Old Zheng, why the hell haven't I heard that there are any friendly troops in this area?"

Li Yunlong couldn't remember, and neither could Xing Zhiguo.

"I haven't heard of any regiment fighting guerrilla warfare in this area. This is the Japanese occupied area."

Indeed, there is the Zhengtai Railway and the Jingxing Coal Mine in this area.

Not far to the west are Niangzi Pass and Longquanyu, which guard the eastern gate of Shanxi.

This location has always been the most important place for the Japanese, and the defense is extremely strict.

It is difficult for ordinary guerrillas to survive here.

"Comrade, may I ask who is your regimental commander? What is your regiment's designation? You just said you intercepted Yamamoto Ikki. What's the situation?"

Zhao Gang asked.

"Our regiment is a militia, without any specific designation. Our leader is Liu Daqiang, whom Commander Zheng knows."

Li Yunlong, Zhao Gang and others had never even heard of the name Liu Daqiang.

However, Zheng Kaixuan felt that the name really sounded familiar.

"Could it be, could it be Liu Daqiang, the mining engineer who escaped from the Jingxing Coal Mine?"

Suddenly Zheng Kaixuan remembered.

I remember that when he led the spearhead regiment to attack the Jingxing mining area from the east of Longquanyu, he rescued a man named Liu Daqiang.

This man is an engineer at the mine and knows everything about it.

With the help of Liu Daqiang, the spearhead regiment successfully eliminated the Japanese in the mine and rescued thousands of miners.

Some of the heavy machinery used by the Japanese in the mining area could not even be detonated by explosives and could not be damaged. It was Liu Daqiang who came up with a solution for Zheng Kaixuan.

Later, Zheng Kaixuan left the Jingxing mining area and returned to the Wei Zhuang base. Liu Daqiang also returned to Hebei Province not long after.

Zheng Kaixuan never expected that Liu Daqiang had actually formed a militia and helped him intercept Yamamoto!

"Our commander learned some time ago that you, Commander Zheng, had arrived in southeastern Shanxi. We wanted to lead our men to find you, but there were too many enemy blockades along the way for us to break through."

"Tonight, brothers received news that the Sharp Knife Regiment was coming to attack us, so our militia rushed here overnight, intending to lend a hand. Unexpectedly, on the way here, we happened to encounter a Japanese cavalry unit."

"Judging from the equipment and combat quality of this unit, our Commander Liu believes that this is most likely a cavalry brigade led by the famous Yamamoto Ikki himself."

"Captain Liu and his men are fighting fiercely with the Japanese. Captain Zheng, please go and help."

At this moment, the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft sent by Huang Dafei's reconnaissance company had also brought back pictures of the battle between Yamamoto's cavalry and the militia.

Everything the two soldiers in front of me said was true.

Zheng Kaixuan did not delay.

"Brothers! Let's go, support our allies and kill Yamamoto Ikki!"

Under the leadership of Zheng Kaixuan, all the soldiers of the Sharp Knife Regiment and Independent Regiment sat on the ivy and began to march rapidly towards the battlefield.

The two militia soldiers who came to report the news were sitting next to Zheng Kaixuan. When they sat on the ivy, both of them were almost shocked.

On the way to the battlefield, Zheng Kaixuan also learned from them about Liu Daqiang's formation of the militia and his experiences in the past few days.

It turned out that most of the members of this militia were miners who had been rescued from the mine by Zheng Kaixuan before.

Zheng Kaixuan vaguely remembers that they rescued as many as seven or eight thousand miners from the mine that night.

Zheng Kaixuan also distributed most of the captured supplies and food to them.

In addition, hundreds or thousands of weapons and ammunition such as the Type 38 rifle were distributed, and there were tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition.

After Liu Daqiang returned to the area, he successfully formed a militia with the help of the equipment left by Zheng Kaixuan and the rescued miners.

At the beginning he gathered more than 3,000 people.

But there are only a little over a thousand guns.

Liu Daqiang led these more than 3,000 people, divided them into small groups, and fought guerrilla warfare against the Japanese in this area for more than a year.

Due to the backward equipment and weapons, many soldiers died in the battle.

There were also many soldiers who had worked as miners in mines and contracted severe pneumoconiosis and tuberculosis, and died of the disease not long after.

However, during this period of time, they have rescued many villagers from the mining area several times.

They also rescued many civilians who were about to be transported into the mining area by the Japanese.

They fought many battles, big and small, causing great headaches for many Japanese garrison troops.

After hearing about their deeds, many local people took the initiative to join the militia.

This force has now grown to about 4,000 people.

The equipment was not good, but basically everyone had a gun, and there were also several mortars and a dozen machine guns.

Even Zheng Kaixuan couldn't help but praise it after hearing it.

"Good fellow! You are so good, Old Liu. You have now grown to a larger number than my spearhead group."

On the battlefield, cold sweat broke out on the foreheads of Yamamoto Ikki and Yokoyama Nagao.

They were not afraid of the militia blocking their way.

Even if this militia has more people than them, as long as no one else intervenes, Yamamoto Ikki feels that he will definitely win in the end.

But the problem is that Zheng Kaixuan's spearhead regiment is right behind them.

Once Zheng Kaixuan is free, even a god will not be able to save these devils.

"What should we do? Yokoyama-kun, what should we do now?"

At this moment, Yamamoto was extremely anxious.

Yokoyama's eldest son was not much better than him. He had almost torn the copy of Sun Tzu's Art of War to pieces, but he could not think of any solution at all.

"Colonel, there's nothing I can do. Who would have thought that this militia, which isn't even an army, would be so tenacious?"

"Their fighting spirit is terrifying!"

"You know, we lead the most elite cavalry brigade in the Locust Army's Ninth Brigade! We are the elite of the elite!"

"But we can't break the encirclement of these country bumpkins no matter what we do!"

"The locust army broke through eight times, but was beaten back eight times! They are desperate! They are simply working like a bunch of lunatics!"