Bright Sword: Develop alone, bring back an artillery regiment

Chapter 25 Alarming Taiyuan, Li Yunlong also took the blame
Wang Chengzhu didn't know that he cut off the recruitment plan of the Second Battalion Commander Shen Quan, let alone let the First Battalion Commander Zhang Dabiao and the Third Battalion Commander Wang Huaibao take the blame for him.

At the same time, Kato Takaki's death also shocked Taiyuan.

Taiyuan, the headquarters of the Japanese First Army.

Yoshio Shinozuka is playing Go with Chief of Staff Jun Miyano.

When the fight was fierce, a communications staff officer rushed in from the outside, and reported to Yoshio Shinozuka, who was playing chess, "Your Excellency, something is wrong!"

Shinozuka Yoshio glanced at the person coming, and asked unhurriedly, "Ikeda-kun, why are you so flustered?"

The devil's communication staff: "Just received the news that Kato Takaki was martyred in Shilipo Yusui."

Hearing this news, Shinozuka Yoshio Furui Muba's face changed, and the flag held between his fingers stayed for a few seconds before falling down.

The death of a chief is not a trivial matter, especially when there is no major battle broke out.

Moreover, Kato Takaki's identity is quite special, he is a senior combat staff officer of the North China Front Army Command, not a subordinate of Shinozuka Yoshio.

Kato Takaki was appointed by the North China Front Army Command to come to Shanxi to investigate the situation of the First Army, and now he was killed on Shinozuka Yoshio's territory, and Shinozuka Yoshio could not escape the blame.

"Who did it?"

The communications staff officer lowered his head and reported truthfully: "I don't know yet!"

"At that time, Kato Takaki was about to return to Taiyuan after inspecting the situation in Wanjia Town. It happened that the 5th Transportation Squadron of the Imperial Army was also escorting a batch of supplies from the Wanjia Town Railway Station to Taiyuan, so Kato Takaki and The 5th Transport Squadron departs together."

"As a result, they were ambushed while passing through Shilipo Town. Colonel Kato Takaki and the Imperial Warriors of the 5th Transport Squadron were all shattered, and nearly two truckloads of military supplies were also robbed!"

"The Sakai team originally stationed in Shilipo Town also died in this incident, but the 1st Battalion and 1rd Company of the 3st Regiment of the [-]th Mixed Brigade of the Imperial Association Army disappeared."

"Therefore, Major Yoshida Jiro, who reported the situation, initially suspected that it was the 8rd Company of the 1st Battalion, 1st Regiment, 3th Mixed Brigade of the Imperial Association Army!"

The vehicle supplies are completely harmless to Shinozuka Yoshio, and the death of more than 200 soldiers is not a big problem.

The only thing that hurt Yoshio Shinozuka was the large boxes of sulfonamide anti-inflammatory drugs. During the war years, drugs were really scarce, even if they were as strong as Japan, they would often be in short supply.

Of course, Kato Takaki's death is also a troublesome matter for Yoshio Shinozuka; however, although his death will make Yoshio Shinozuka reprimanded by the front army headquarters, that's all.

After all, in the "Bright Sword" TV series, the devil's observation group was ambushed by Li Yunlong's independent group, but a major general and several junior officers were killed.

As a result, Shinozuka Yoshio was not dismissed, and he was not even severely punished.

The death of a chief is naturally not a big deal.

Toshi Miyano, who was sitting opposite Yoshio Shinozuka, said, "I don't think things are that simple. We know the combat effectiveness of the Imperial Association Army."

"Besides, the Eighth Mixed Brigade, 1st Regiment, 1st Battalion, and 3rd Company have a total of less than 150 people. With their combat effectiveness, even if they use tricks and tricks, they cannot be opponents of our Imperial Army."

It has to be said that Jun Miyano was able to become the chief of staff of the First Army, and his strategic vision was still very vicious, and he could see the problems at a glance.

"Ah."

Shinozuka Yoshio nodded: "Miyano-kun's analysis is good, this matter is not so simple, order the intelligence department to investigate carefully for me!"

"Hi Yi!"

The communication staff officer nodded heavily, then remembered something, and said: "By the way, Your Excellency Commander, Your Excellency Chief of Staff, Major Yoshida Jiro also reported a situation."

Miyano Jun: "What's going on?"

The communications staff officer said: "After the enemy ambushed the 5th Transport Squadron of the Imperial Army, they also took off the uniforms and shoes of the soldiers of the Imperial Army, leaving only a pair of underwear on all the corpses."

Hearing this, Jun Miyano suddenly became furious and said: "Baga! These damned Chinese people dare to insult my Great Japanese Empire like this, they deserve death!"

As the commander of the First Army, Yoshio Shinozuka's determination is obviously much better than Toshi Miyano's. He said, "I seem to know who ambushed the 5th Transport Squadron of the Imperial Army."

Miyano Toshi subconsciously asked, "Who is it?"

Shinozuka Yoshio said: "Before this, similar incidents happened, and every time it was the Eighth Route Army's Xinyi Regiment."

"If there are no accidents, the Eighth Route Army Xinyi Regiment probably did it again this time."

"Besides, it's not that the Eighth Route Army Xinyi Regiment wants to insult our Great Japanese Imperial Army, but that their regiment leader Li Yunlong is an extremely stingy guy.

Every time they won a battle, when they cleaned the battlefield, they would not only bury the corpses of the imperial army, but also take away everything that could be taken away from the battlefield.

The military uniforms, military boots, warheads, shell casings, and even a button of the imperial army were not spared. "

Li Yunlong took the warheads and shell casings from the battlefield not to sell them as scrap, but to reinstall them.

As we all know, although the Eighth Route Army has its own arsenal, their conditions are extremely crude, and they basically do not have any decent equipment. It is not so much an arsenal as a weapon repair factory.

Also make some wooden handle grenades, repair some damaged guns, etc. This requires that the barrel is not damaged, otherwise it can only be declared scrapped.

This is why the rifling of many Eighth Route Army guns is almost worn out, but they are still in use.

As for the manufacture of bullets, the industry is no simpler than that of guns.

The arsenal of the Eighth Route Army is basically impossible to manufacture.

However, compared to manufacturing bullets, reloading bullets is obviously much simpler.

Just clean and reshape the recovered shell casings, then install the primer, load the propellant and the warhead...

After listening to Yoshio Shinozuka's analysis, Toshi Miyano's anger dissipated a lot, but at the same time he remembered something, and asked, "Your Excellency, the new regiment you are talking about is the one who defeated Sakata in Cangyun Ridge." The alliance also killed the Shindan regiment of Sakata Shintetsu?"

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(End of this chapter)