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"Your Excellency, Commander."

"Flying Team 9 has returned."

In Taiyuan, the First Army Headquarters, Chief of Staff Kusuyama Hideyoshi reported to Shinozuka Yoshio.

It was already dark at this time, but it didn't mean that the plane couldn't take off after dark.

Instead, pilots cannot see ground targets after dark, and it is difficult to find ground targets for bombing and dive attacks.

"Is there no news from the 13th Cavalry Regiment?"

Shinozuka Yoshio asked, suddenly a bad feeling rose in his heart.

"No news at the moment." Kusuyama Hideyoshi said, "However, the 13th Cavalry Regiment should have arrived at the position of the military column at this time. It should be fighting with the Eighth Route Army. The communication team of the 13th Cavalry Regiment has no time to set up a radio station."

Shinozuka Yoshio asked again: "The infantry rushing to the rescue, which unit is the closest to Longwangtu?"

Nanshan Hideyoshi hurriedly said: "The nearest one is the 1st Mobile Brigade, which is only 6 kilometers away from Longwangtu. It has already joined the 2nd Mobile Brigade, but it was stubbornly blocked by the Eighth Route."

"In addition, the 4th Mobile Battalion has arrived at Niangziguan, and has completed the rendezvous with the Niangziguan defenders, and is advancing towards Longwangtu."

"It's just that the advance speed is very slow. In addition to the Eighth Route blocking force, the Eighth Route Group also deployed a mountain artillery regiment in the east and west attack directions."

Yoshio Shinozuka frowned.

Whether an army has artillery or not is completely different in battle. The firepower of an artillery regiment is only less than two brigades. It is difficult to break through the eighth line of defense.

If the three divisions in southern Shanxi are not used right now, only the 14th and 18th brigades and the two regiments of the 2nd Guards Division will be used.

In terms of division-level artillery firepower, it was completely suppressed by the Eight Route Army.

Even if the artillery wing of the 2nd Guards Division is in place, it can barely fight.

However, Yoshio Shinozuka was gratified that the Japanese army still had a great advantage in terms of artillery fire support at the squad and squadron levels as a whole.

Light mortars and grenades can still suppress the eight-way firepower.

Kusuyama Hideyoshi continued: "The military column from Yangquan derailed after only a few kilometers, and the soldiers are rushing to help on foot."

"Not only Yangquan, but also the railway in the direction of Jingxing and the section from Shouyang to Yangquan have been damaged to varying degrees!"

As Kusuyama Hideyoshi went on, Shinozuka Yoshio's face turned ugly.

Shinozuka Yoshio's tone was gloomy: "It seems that this group of idiots are really well prepared."

"Order all the mobile brigades to rush to help on foot, at all costs!"

"Hi!" Kusuyama Hideyoshi paused, then walked quickly to the communication room next door.

About 10 minutes later, Kusuyama Hideyoshi came back again, his footsteps hurried and his face extremely ugly.

"Your Excellency, the 13th Cavalry Regiment has news."

As soon as he walked into the war room of the headquarters, Kusuyama Hideyoshi said immediately, in a hurried tone.

Seeing Kusuyama Hideyoshi's panicked expression, Shinozuka Yoshio's heart sank suddenly, and he asked in a deep voice, "Did something happen to the 13th Cavalry Regiment?"

"Yes!"

Kusuyama Hideyoshi's face was ugly: "The 13th Cavalry Regiment encountered the Eighth Cavalry Brigade 3 kilometers southwest of Longwangtu. After a fierce battle, the 13th Cavalry Regiment was defeated by the Eighth Route Cavalry Brigade. Only 200 cavalrymen fled back to Yangquan!"

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"Eighth Route Cavalry Brigade? This is impossible!"

Shinozuka Yoshio's tone was unbelievable. There was no information showing that the Eighth Route Army in Southeast Shanxi had a cavalry brigade, not even a cavalry regiment.

The 129th Division has only one cavalry regiment in total, fighting guerrillas with the Japanese army in the Southern Hebei Plain.

And the Eighth Route Army in Southeast Shanxi only had one or two cavalry battalions at most. Where did the cavalry brigade come from?
"Your Excellency, Commander." Kusuyama Hideyoshi smiled wryly, "This is likely to be true. The cavalry battalion of the 8th mixed brigade of the Imperial Association Army, the cavalry battalion of the 2nd Independent Division of the Imperial Association Army, and part of the horses of the Kuroshima Cavalry Regiment, They all fell into the hands of Ba Lu, so it is not surprising that Ba Lu used these military horses to form a cavalry brigade."

"The strange thing is that the combat effectiveness of the cavalry brigade of the Eighth Route Army is far beyond the imagination of the imperial army."

"Even the 13th Cavalry Regiment with rich combat experience was defeated."

"Are these military horses snatched from the Imperial Army and the Imperial Association Army?" Yoshio Shinozuka's face darkened again.

"Your Excellency, Commander, not only these army horses, but also many of the 38 rifles, Type [-] heavy machine guns and ammunition in the hands of many of the eight roads were snatched from the imperial army and the imperial association army." Kusuyama Hideyoshi said with a wry smile. .

"I Have a Scroll of Ghosts and Gods"

"Baga!" Yoshio Shinozuka scolded, "Then what is the imperial army? The transportation team of the Eighth Route? What am I, the commander? The captain of the transportation team of the Eighth Route?"

At this time, Yoshio Shinozuka became angry from his heart, and his eyes swept over the sand table in front of him. This sand table was built with great difficulty and cannot be damaged.

He glanced at a radio communicator and a telephone placed on the desk. These two are valuables and cannot be damaged.

Sweeping to a blue-and-white porcelain ornament in the corner of the war room, Shinozuka Yoshio finally found the outlet, and immediately drew out his command saber to chop the blue-and-white porcelain vase, which was as tall as a person, into pieces.

There was only a clattering sound, and the blue and white porcelain vase shattered to the ground...

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After dark, the brigade commander also arrived at Longwangtu.

Seeing that the military column was not blown up by the Devil's plane, he was immediately relieved.

Immediately a smile appeared on his face, the Eighth Route Army has really made a fortune.

1000 tons of ammunition and 200 million catties of ammunition, as Li Yunlong said, the Eighth Route Army will have a good year.

At this time, the supplies in the military column were only half moved, and the brigade commander walked towards the military column with a few guards.

The brigade commander heard Li Yunlong's loud voice from far away.

"Haha, 75 mm caliber instant shells! 2 rounds in a box!"

"70mm shells, 3 rounds in a box!"

"Report to the head, 6 devil tanks were found at the rear of the train."

"What did you say, there are 6 tanks?" Li Datuan raised his voice.

Immediately Li Yunlong was about to take a look at the captured Devils tank, and bumped into the brigade commander head-on.

"Brigade Commander!" The moment he saw the Brigadier Commander, Li Yunlong smiled like a chrysanthemum, showing a respectful expression on his face, and saluted with a snap.

"Li Yunlong, how is the capture situation?" The brigade commander asked after returning a military salute.

"Basically all the ammunition and supplies on the military column have been seized." Li Yunlong said, "There are bullets, artillery shells, grenades and hand grenades, and there are a lot of them. There are also 60 tons of gasoline and diesel oil. By the way, a soldier just reported that There are 6 Devil tanks."

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The load of one carriage is almost 60 tons. This train has 16 carriages, and two more carriages are added at the back to hold tanks. However, the devil tanks are covered with army green cloth, and no soldiers noticed at first.

The brigade commander showed interest on his face, and said, "Go, let's see the tanks!"

At the moment Li Yunlong accompanied the brigade commander to the rear of the Devils' column.

The front half of the entire devil army column was derailed, and the iron wheels of the second half were still on the rails, which led to no rollover.

If it rolls over, the devil inside will be killed and injured a lot on the spot.

Not long after, Li Yunlong and the brigade commander arrived at the rear of the train. At this time, there were already many people around here, including Zhang Dabiao, Zheng Yu, Xu Yonghai and others.

Li Yunlong and the brigade commander took a closer look and saw a total of 6 tanks, 2 Type 4 light tanks and [-] Type [-] medium tanks, which were chained to the train.

"Haha, it's really a tank." Li Yunlong was immediately happy, "Brigade Commander, now you can form a tank company."

The corner of the brigade commander's mouth was also slightly raised, and he turned to the guard and said, "Go and ask, who in our brigade can drive a tank?"

"Yes, Brigadier!" The guard snapped a military salute and walked back.

"Is anyone in your regiment able to drive a tank?" the brigade commander asked Li Yunlong.

"Brigade Commander, yes there is, but..." Li Yunlong hesitated a little.

"But what?" asked the brigade commander, "If you have tank soldiers, hurry up and find them for me."

"Sword Squadron has learned it in books, but has never actually operated it. Those guys should know it." Li Yunlong said, "But those guys are not here now."

Leader Li was somewhat thankful that the guys from the Sword Squadron were not there.

The brigade commander of these 6 tanks will definitely keep it for himself to form a tank unit, and he has no part in it.

If the members of the Sword Squadron were robbed by the brigade commander to become tank soldiers, it would be over.

All the members of the Sword Squadron are the treasures of Commander Li, and they wouldn't change them for any battalion commander.

Captain Li thought to himself that the 386th Brigade has tens of thousands of people, except for the Sword Squadron, it should not be difficult to find a few tank soldiers.

At this time, Zhou Chunyu, the head of the brigade cavalry, came on horseback. Seeing the brigade commander, he got off his horse and gave a military salute: "Report to the brigade commander, the brigade subordinate cavalry regiment, the new first regiment cavalry battalion, and the new second regiment cavalry company The independent cavalry company fought against the Japanese cavalry regiment on the flanks, defeated the Japanese cavalry regiment, annihilated more than 1000 devil cavalry soldiers, and captured more than 800 army horses. The captured weapons and ammunition have not yet had time to count.”

"Huh?" The brigade commander asked hurriedly, "How many casualties did our cavalry have?"

"We had a total of more than 400 casualties." Zhou Chunyu replied, "About 200 people were killed and 200 people were injured. The exact number of deaths and injuries has not yet been counted."

"When did the combat effectiveness of the devil cavalry become so weak?" The brigade commander was a little stunned when he heard this, it shouldn't be, with a similar force, the battle loss ratio of the enemy and us was 2.5 to 1?

"The main reason is that the saber in our hands is good." Zhou Chunyu looked at Li Yunlong, "The Yunlong saber provided by Captain Li is simply the nemesis of the devil's [-]-style cavalry saber, plus the machine gun firepower and The firepower of the light machine gun swept the devils for a round first, and killed a quarter of the devils, and this was a big victory."

In fact, the cavalry battalion of the new regiment and the cavalry regiment of the brigade have only recently expanded, and half of the cavalry are new cavalry, otherwise the number of casualties of the eighth cavalry will be greatly reduced.

"Haha." Li Yunlong said happily again, "This Yoshio Shinozuka is quite particular, and he even brought us a big gift before dark."

More than 800 army horses, as well as a full set of saddles, rifles, and sabers, are enough for the Eighth Route Army to expand a cavalry regiment.

"Yoshio Shinozuka, the captain of the transport team." Zhang Dabiao cocked his lips, "This is what I do."

"Da Biao, what you said reminds me." Li Yunlong said, "You draw up a telegram, roughly saying that the Eighth Route Army has received one thousand tons of ammunition and horse equipment for a cavalry regiment. Thank you Comrade Yoshio Shinozuka, the transportation team leader of the Eighth Route Army, Comrade Yoshio Shinozuka traveled thousands of miles to China to transport supplies for our Eighth Route Army, what kind of spirit is this, this is the spirit of internationalism, and it is sent in a clear telegram.”

The crowd burst into laughter, and the air was filled with joy.

"Yes!" Zhang Dabiao raised his mouth and straightened his body.

The brigade commander didn't say much. The brigade commander has a humorous personality. Li Yunlong learned this from the brigade commander.

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