Bright Sword: Infinite Logistics

Chapter 35 Telegram from Headquarters
After the Japanese occupy the county town, if they choose to station themselves in the city, they will usually choose some solid buildings to serve as military camps and artificially change the surrounding terrain.

In Yushe County, the Japs occupied the No. [-] Provincial Middle School, while in Wuxiang County, the Japs occupied the county government.

Of course, they sometimes did not choose to station in the city - the original county seat was burned to the ground by them, and there were only ten or even a few hundred residents in the city.In this case, they would not be stationed in the city. It would be better to find a larger village to station.

Wuxiang County, the former county government, is now a Japanese military camp.

At this moment, Imagawa Koichi was looking at the telegram in his hand, silent.The telegram in his hand was an order issued directly from the First Army Headquarters to the counties.

According to the battle plan specified before the sweep, the Locust Army was supposed to encircle and annihilate the main force of the Eighth Route Army in Wuxiang County. However, the current result is that the Eighth Route Army jumped out of the encirclement from multiple directions, and the plan failed.

If the plan simply failed, that would be acceptable.After all, the core purpose of Umezu Yoshijiro's "security purge operation" is to expand the control area and develop the resources on this land.

If you run eight routes, you will run away. As long as you capture the county seat and control the local situation, it will be fine.

But that's exactly where the problem lies.Balu is not a character who refuses to fight back even after being beaten.After breaking out of the encirclement, all brigades and regiments were looking for opportunities to launch a counterattack against the little devils.

On the side of the [-]th Brigade, the New Regiment fought the Battle of Clouds, and the cold gun movement suppressed half of the strongholds in the Wudong area.The supplementary group also secured a large Japanese stronghold and achieved considerable results.

The [-]th Brigade was not idle either, and fought a beautiful stone box ambush on the way back from the Japanese mopping up troops.Then a regiment was sent to surround the county seat occupied by the Japanese and began to encircle the points to call for reinforcements.

Further south, the headquarters' special agents made gains almost every day, causing the nearby Japanese to have no peace day and night.

Yes, all the counties and towns along the way are under the firm control of the Japanese army. Even if the surrounding situation is not good, the Eighth Route Army will not be able to easily break through the county towns in the short term.

But at what cost?

During this period, in the past month, more than 2000 locust army jade pieces were broken into pieces.

This number does not include the puppet troops. It is a serious two thousand pieces of jade.Within a month, the Eighth Route Army fought piecemeal, accumulating small victories into big ones, and actually killed two brigades of fellow soldiers.

The Eighth Route Army's attacks continued and even intensified.However, the Japanese army's mobile forces became increasingly stretched in this environment. They had no choice but to be passively beaten.

So, how long can the Japanese army endure such damage?
The answer is clear.

Imagawa Hiroshi looked at the telegram in his hand again.There were a few lines of dazzling text written on it.

"Order our troops and the Wudong stronghold to evacuate in the direction of Taigu, massacre the villages before leaving, and burn down the county town, so that Wuxiang will have no people to support the Eighth Route, and no food to support the Eighth Route..."

Putting the telegram on the table, Imagawa Koichi shook his head: "Is this really necessary?"

It wasn't that he was out of kindness and realized what he was doing.But the locust army had already entered Wuxiang County last year and had already massacred them.

Today's Wuxiang is not even [-]% as prosperous as last year.

"That's it, let's do it." Imagawa Hongyi sat back on the chair: "Go and invite Mr. Zhong."

Since we are going to retreat, we must prepare a retreat plan immediately.It is not only the locust army that needs to retreat, but also the newly surrendered puppet troops must be taken away.

The first batch of students from the Japanese military academies in North China are about to graduate. Now they are catching strong men everywhere to serve as puppet troops. When the time comes, there will definitely be a major reorganization of the puppet troops.

Therefore, the puppet troops must be taken away.

"Taijun? You called me?" Not long after, Zhong Yunhe tiptoed in front of Imagawa Koichi, nodding and bowing.

"Zhong Jun, now there is an opportunity in front of you. I will recommend you to enter the North China Army Officer School and be named in the Army Officer Corps." Imagawa Hongichi frowned.

He didn't know who was so foolish and wise as to actually issue a regimental-level appointment to such a bandit.

This means that Zhong Yunhe is qualified to be in the officer corps. As long as he stays in the military academy for one year, he can become a regiment leader in the reorganized puppet army.

Although this appointment played a certain role in his control of Wuxiang County, he still felt that with Zhong Yunhe's cultural level, he could not be the leader.

His foundation was so poor that even if he studied at the Army Officer School for one year, he would only be a company platoon leader at most.

But this is none of his business, he is only responsible for notification.As for the future, this idiot will trick the team leader into cheating on his teammates...

Probably not, right?After all, after the reorganization, the highest command power is still in the hands of the consultant from the younger brother's country.

Imagawa Hiroshi calmed down and suppressed the distracting thoughts that arose.

He did not know that after these puppet troops were reorganized into the famous "Imperial Association Army" in the future, they achieved countless achievements that blinded the Taijun's eyes.

It didn't matter if battalions and regiments were annihilated, and even one regiment defeated eight companies and seven companies, and was completely annihilated despite having superior troops and superior equipment.

Even if a thousand pigs are running all over the mountains and plains, they can't be caught all at once!
"Thank you Taijun, thank you Taijun!"

Although Zhong Yunhe is a bandit, he also understands what it means for the Japanese to let him go to the military academy.This is to cultivate him and reuse him!
"I will lead the team to leave Wuxiang in the next two days, and you will set fire to this city. When we get to Taigu, you can report to the military academy."

Hearing this, Zhong Yunhe finally lost his composure: "Burn...burn the city?"

"Yes, Mr. Zhong, aren't you willing to burn it?"

"Yes... yes." Zhong Yunhe was startled.

Ever since he was pointed at by a Japs with a gun, Zhong Yunhe has been in a state of being easily frightened when facing the Japs.

Imagawa Hongyi nodded with satisfaction: "Xixi, go down and get ready!"

After sending Zhong Yunhe away, Imagawa Hiroshi began to notify Wudong's strongholds one by one.

If it is just a retreat, then there is no need for too detailed a plan. Even if you are suppressed by cold guns in the stronghold, it is not difficult to retreat. After all, this is not a heavy siege.

But since the headquarters ordered the massacre of the village, it must be carefully planned.If they attack civilians, the Eighth Route Army will rush out like crazy and fight against the locust army.

By then, maybe the task has not been completed and it will turn into a pot of porridge.Therefore, we must formulate a combat plan from now on and try to concentrate our forces relatively when taking action to avoid being defeated one by one by eight groups.

"Hello? Is this the Weizhuang stronghold? I'm Imakawa. You guys wait..."

"Hello? Is this the Wangjiazhuang stronghold? I am Imakawa. You attack the village at..., and then meet in the direction of Wei Zhuang. Go to..., and finally... I will wait for you there."

After everything was arranged properly, Imagawa looked at the map and reviewed it again.Finally, he nodded with satisfaction.

(End of this chapter)