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Chapter 396 Preparations Before Grabbing (1)

Inside the city of Anyi County with high walls and deep walls.

"...Master Araki, the military initially planned to attack Changsha in September, so the collection of early rice will be part of the military rations for the Changsha campaign. Your department must pay attention to it and send the collected early rice to Yongxiu County and Nanchang City in strict accordance with the schedule. !"

"Hi! Hi!"

Araki bowed heavily in front of the phone.

After putting down the phone, Araki sat down on the armchair.After rubbing the corners of his brows with his hands to soothe his spirit, he spread out the map on the table again.

There are mountains and rivers on the map, and Araki circled as many as fifteen places on it, large and small. These are the places responsible for collecting and distributing early rice harvests. The threshing ground built next to the bunker is not eligible for the picture.

Looking at the place marked with a red circle, Araki thought that he could have calmly arranged the transportation of grain during the entire rice harvest period, but after sending [-] imperial troops and [-] imperial alliance troops into Meiling, there were only a hundred or so After the soldiers of the imperial army withdrew, there was a shortage in the deployment of troops.

Of the [-] Imperial Army and [-] Imperial Alliance Army that participated in the encirclement and suppression of Meiling, except for one squadron of the Imperial Army and a hundred soldiers of the Imperial Association Army who were dispatched directly from the county seat, half of them were recruited directly from the outer strongholds of Anyi County. Yes, this has led to the situation where there is a gap in the outer side as soon as the troops are mobilized.

Entering Meiling lost [-] troops for no reason, so at this moment Araki had to carefully calculate how to deploy his troops most effectively. He was not naive to think that when the rice was harvested, Meiling's Chongqing Army and the Eighth Route guerrillas would do it. stare.

Araki held the pen in his hand and twirled, and there was no need to worry too much about the boundaries around Anyi County where he was.

Until now, there has not been a single case of Meiling Chongqing Army and Eighth Route guerrillas causing trouble around the county town, especially since the Meiling Chongqing Army has never crossed the upper tributary of the Beiliao River.

Thinking in this way, Araki came to a conclusion: Whether it is the Meiling Chongqing Army or the Eighth Route Guerrilla, they are very taboo to go deep. Not too far away, so the troops around the county can be tightened outside and loosened inside.

After thinking about this, Araki decided that on the surface, the strongholds around the county town would be well-defended, but he would secretly deploy some of the troops inside, and the deployed troops would be used to supplement the strongholds around the county town, especially those in charge of rice collection and distribution in the picture. stronghold.

Araki tried his best to reasonably dispatch the troops of the fifteen grain distribution bases on the map. The general principle of dispatching is that the grain distribution bases in the depth are tight on the outside and loose on the inside, and the grain distribution bases on the outskirts of the county are strengthened.

Here Araki circled fifteen places on the map, while Li Chong circled Huangzhou Town, Zhoushang Village and Shenjia Village on the map, only one-third of Araki's.

There is no other way, at this moment when a large-scale manpower is needed to rush to harvest early rice, it is difficult for Li Chong's regiment to take care of all the early rice fields in Anyi County unless the whole regiment is fully dispatched.

However, Li Chong, who has always pursued "enlarging one's own advantages locally", would never share his troops. It is taboo to "want to get everything" when using troops in combat.

Therefore, in this operation to rush to harvest early rice, Li Chong ordered the company to be the basic combat unit, and the company commanders to be the general starting point. It can't be too scattered, otherwise even if the bunker is laid down, it will be restricted by manpower and cannot quickly transport grain into the mountain.

In the past two days, the scattered "Meiling Maike" flowed to the predetermined target area, and then they were captured by the devils and puppet troops there, and incorporated into the rice-cutting teams recruited from various villages. Both men and women, old and young.

The moment the rice harvesting and threshing started, the "Meiling Maike" kept sending out news, and the Meiling Main Peak Regiment Headquarters and the three battalions continued to collect information.

The first two days were just continuous harvesting. After harvesting, the ears of rice with straw were transported to various threshing grounds and spread out on the ground to continue to expose to the sun.

On the third day after the harvest, the threshing field started to operate, and within half a day, hundreds of sacks filled with grain were piled up in front of each bunker, and according to the news from the third battalion, Huangzhou Town was mobilizing migrant workers to the three bunkers. The gunboat transported grain, and tomorrow morning it will carry [-] catties of freshly threshed rice to Anyi County.

After receiving this news, Li Chong knew that the time had come to pick up ready-made items!The devil's threshing ground has gathered a batch of grain.

In fact, in the past three days, there have been gunshots outside Meiling.

Not from the three battalions under the regiment headquarters, but from the guerrilla armed forces of the Eighth Route, mobilizing the masses at the junction of Fengxin County and Anyi County and making it flourish.

But there was no gunfire around the three circles Li Chong had drawn.

This was because Xiao Yuan and Sun Wenjun came to ask the national army if they wanted to work together when they were organizing a grain harvest because of the joint fight against the devils.And Li Chong told them not to touch the areas around Huangzhou Town, Zhoushang Village, and Shenjia Village.

So in the past three days, the devils have been very irritable, such as Araki in Anyi County.

He mobilized troops around the county to replenish the food distribution bases to prevent the Meiling Chongqing Army from making a surprise attack and to guard the food collected and distributed in the bases.

As a result, the food distribution bases were not attacked. Instead, the wased fields that the imperial army had taken into their pockets were quickly harvested like locusts by the eight-way guerrillas at night. Many fields were bald overnight!
Obviously, the guerrillas usually only have so few people, and the labor force and harvesting tools in the village were requisitioned and confiscated by the Imperial Army and the Imperial Association Army. How could the Eighth Route guerrillas find so many sickles and people?

In the past three days, apart from the incidents in which the Eight Routes mobilized the masses and the devils and puppet troops to race against time to collect food, Li Chong's military ranks and medals were also sent to the Meiling Regiment Headquarters via the intelligence system.

At the beginning of the battle to prepare for the harvest of early rice, Li Chong took off the rank of lieutenant colonel on his collar and replaced it with the rank of colonel. Wrap it up and put it in a wooden box.

The night before the operation, the regiment headquarters dismantled two [-]-type infantry guns and prepared to take them to the delta sandbar in the river outside Zhoushang Village, where they would be used to bomb the Devil's gunboat.

The companies under the three battalions also selected their own elite soldiers and generals. The six grenadiers captured by the third battalion and the four grenade grenade harvested by the devils withdrew from the Meiling Road were all taken out, and each company took one , [-] [-]mm gas bombs were distributed to each battalion.

In addition, thanks to the weapons left by the devils, each company now has a light machine gun.

(End of this chapter)