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Chapter 393, The Importance of Yuan Lang

How did the 17 Central Army entrenched in Zhongtiao Mountain lose?
A small half of the factors should be attributed to the leakage of intelligence.

The spies of the Japanese and puppet troops had infiltrated the Central Army into a sieve, wreaking havoc at the beginning of the battle.

It also provided the most detailed information for the attacking Japanese army.

Sun Tzu said in the Art of War: Know yourself and know the enemy, and you will never be imperiled in a hundred battles.

The Japanese army learned it, but the Central Army threw such knowledge into the dog's stomach.

They are undefeated, it is simply unreasonable.

The Eighth Route Army has always attached great importance to intelligence work, and has a set of housekeeping skills for reverse osmosis.

Especially in the case of knowing that the Japanese army will take care of it.

Zhao Gang, the political commissar of the sub-military region, formulated a special intelligence identification system, which played a very significant role in resisting the infiltration of the Japanese army.

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Enter the No. checkpoint in Zhongtiao Mountain.

A squad of soldiers stood firm here, checking all personnel and supplies entering the mountain.

"Stop, comrade, what section are you from?"

The squad leader standing guard stretched out his hand and stopped the dozen or so Eighth Route Army soldiers in front of him.

The leader was a tall, thin man who replied in the local dialect of Shanxi:

"We belong to the third company of the guerrilla team of the Yinshan County District Committee. A few days ago, we pried some steel rails and prepared to exchange some bullets and mines to fight the little devils."

In the team of more than ten people, half of them were carrying Zhongguan and the other half were carrying Dagai.

The two donkey carts pulling the heavy steel rails.

Since it was announced that steel rails and other materials can be exchanged for various weapons and ammunition.

The independent guerrilla battalions in the surrounding area sent people to exchange them.

Similar situations are very common, and the fighters at the checkpoints are no strangers to it.

The squad leader standing guard gave an oh, and asked familiarly: "Your third company commander, Xu An, knows me quite well. Last time, you took a few medicines for your tinnitus. How are you doing? Are you feeling better?"

The tall and thin man froze for a moment, as far as he knew, Xu An didn't have tinnitus at all.

He hesitated for a moment, and responded according to what the intelligence said.

"Did you remember correctly? Our company commander doesn't have tinnitus."

"That may be my memory is wrong, you wait." A strange look flashed in the eyes of the squad leader standing guard.

With the back of his hand, he gestured to the soldiers behind him.

The soldiers saw it, pulled the bolt of the gun without saying a word, and aimed their guns at the dozen people in front of them.

Pointed at by a light machine gun, a submachine gun, and seven rifles.

The faces of the thin and tall man and the people behind him changed, and they asked, "What does this mean? What are you going to do?"

The squad leader took out the twenty-gun that was strapped to his waist, opened the safety, pointed the muzzle of the gun at the tall and thin man and said, "It's nothing else, please put down your weapon and accept our investigation."

A trace of panic flashed in the thin and tall man's eyes, could it be that he was discovered?

He resisted and retorted: "You doubt us? No, you look down on our guerrillas, so you are targeting us?"

The squad leader aimed his gun at the third person behind him, "Who is that, what about you, don't move your hands.

We have the right to shoot and kill those who do not cooperate and have the intention to resist. Please put down your weapons and accept the investigation. "

The soldier who touched the grenade stopped immediately.

The safety of the gun had already been released, and his index finger was resting on the trigger. He didn't dare to bet on whether the other party would rob him.

The tall and thin man shook his head slightly, stared at the monitor in front of him unconvinced, and said loudly:
"You are not afraid of the shadows slanting, you put down your weapons and accept the investigation. If you dare to wrong us, you will definitely sue them later, so that they can't bear to go around."

Still acting?

It is worthy of being specially trained.

The squad leader was expressionless, neither happy nor sad. He was very sure that there must be something wrong with the identities of the people in front of him.

Xu An, the commander of the third company, did not suffer from tinnitus, but if someone from his company came, he would definitely answer: It's not good, maybe he met a quack doctor.

Because this is the unique code that every troop that moves independently outside has.

If Xu An asked his subordinates to come down, he would definitely tell the leader.

If the people in front of you say things are much better, it means that their intelligence work is not very good, and they are lying temporarily.

If you say categorically that there is no such thing at all, then you probably have learned about it in detail.

Such a person is likely to be an enemy who was repeatedly ordered by political commissar Zhao to ask checkpoints everywhere to pay more attention.

It is very likely that the Japanese army pretended to be the Eighth Route Army to pass the customs, sneaked in to engage in espionage, sabotage and assassination.

Since they are all wearing the clothes of the Eighth Route Army, there is no problem with their accent.

Coupled with the large number of Eighth Route Army troops, it is impossible for the sentry to recognize everyone
It's hard to be prepared if you don't know.

But if you know something in advance and make targeted arrangements, it is easy to test it out.

The squad leader on duty guessed that he should have made a great contribution. After leading the soldiers under his command to disarm all these dozen people, he immediately called to inform his superiors.

Soon after, two squads of fully armed soldiers came and escorted all the dozen or so people away.

On a relatively hidden slope in the distance, Shigeo Masuko put down the binoculars in his hand in a daze.

How could this be?
These dozen or so subordinates were trained by him alone.

Whether it's language, accent or behavior, they are all trained after the Eighth Route Army.

Before this team, not only successfully deceived the common people in the base area, but also chatted face-to-face with some guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army, never showing its feet.

How could it be planted here?
There is only one possibility.

Mashiko Shigeo sighed heavily, he regretted it to death now, and wished he could slap himself a few times.

Why couldn't he control his mouth that day, and let out all the information?

Why are you so cheap!
Well now, not only are the lurking subordinates in danger, but even the difficulty for them to get in is increasing exponentially.

Mashiko Shigeo said to the other three team leaders in Eighth Route Army uniforms behind him:

"The captain of the Jiusong branch failed. It is impossible to sneak in in an open and aboveboard manner. You have to climb mountains and cliffs with weapons to sneak in, and go to the agreed place to make contact."

"Yes." The three team captains replied in the correct Huaguo dialect.

They were all prepared to sneak in disguised as the Eighth Route Army. This route was the easiest and most rewarding.

Of course, as a specially trained soldier, climbing mountains and cliffs is also a necessary skill.

It just takes more time and risks falling off the cliff.

They wouldn't take this path if they didn't have to.

After dismissing his subordinates, Mashiko Shigeo, who changed into a civilian businessman's clothes, took out an identity certificate issued by the Eighth Route Army from his pocket.

Of course, this was forged by a clever agent, and it is more than enough to deal with the inspection to make the fake one look like the real one.

Mashiko Shigeo swaggered towards the checkpoint.

In fact, it is not difficult for his subordinates to forge the documents of ordinary people and sneak into the base of the Eighth Route Army.

The question is, what can dozens of people pretend to be ordinary people and get in there?
There is no weapon at hand, and I want to destroy it.No matter how powerful the special fighters are, they will die under the guns of the Eight Route Army.

Mashiko Shigeo doesn't have to carry a weapon to make up to enter, he has more important tasks than destroying.

Huangdang Village, the residence of the Third Independent Regiment.

In the dark night, after the night owl barked twice, a furtive figure appeared behind a big rock on the leeward slope of the village.

"Sir."

The soldier in the gray Eighth Route Army uniform looked at the person in front of him in surprise.

He got the news of the meeting tonight, but he never expected that the person who met him turned out to be his immediate boss Mashiko Shigeo.

Mashiko Shigeo looked at No. in front of him, frowned and reprimanded: "Keep down."

Along the way, he felt the tight organization of the Eighth Route Army.

Especially for foreigners, the inspection is very tight.

He didn't dare to underestimate Balu like he did before departure.

"Sir, Balu has been under strict investigation recently, and they are usually not allowed to come out. My time is very short. What kind of business do you need to contact me?"

When Mashiko Shigeo heard this, he looked around anxiously, fearing that his subordinates would attract Balu and cause him to be arrested too.

Anyway, his worries seemed unnecessary, there was no tail hiding in the dark.

Mashiko Shigeo whispered softly: "I went to the Second Independent Regiment, but I didn't contact No. . Is there something wrong there?"

No. 17 replied: "It seems that something happened. No. of the second regiment and No. of the first regiment have not contacted them recently.

Since returning from the last attack on Jincheng, the Eighth Route Army seems to have only strengthened discipline supervision on the surface.

But I can feel that there are several pairs of eyes secretly staring at us.

Now, I won't communicate with other people unless it's necessary, for fear of being caught by dark eyes. "

The group that came out of the prisoner camps happened to coincide with the expansion of the Eighth Route Army.

Coupled with their tacit cooperation, basically all three independent groups have mixed in with their people.

The team members who had already undergone special training showed a little bit of extraordinary ability, and were promoted to the backbone like a rocket.

It is very easy to find out internal information if you become one of the Eighth Route Army's own people.

As for the Zhongtiaoshan Eighth Route Army, most of the not-so-secret information was collected through the joint efforts of everyone.

For the Japanese army, which was concentrating on dealing with the Eighth Route Army, this was no less than rain after a long drought.

No. 's training performance ranks among the top five out of people. Mashiko Shigeo believes in No. 's judgment.

That also means that by chance, they were lucky enough to break into the intelligence network within the Eighth Route Army, which has now been severely damaged.

It is very likely that it will be uprooted in the future.

All of this stems from that damn meal.

Mashiko Shigeo didn't want to think about it any more, he was afraid that he couldn't help but fall into deep regret again.

"Have you collected any important information recently?"

It really does.

No. replied: "The Eighth Route Army acquired a secret weapon called Katyusha. I heard that it was this weapon that caused heavy casualties in the Jincheng artillery bombardment."

Mashiko Shigeo's eyes lit up, he still had a fresh memory of that destructive weapon.

Quickly ask: "Is there any detailed information on the mechanism and range of this weapon?"

No. shook his head: "I heard that people from the New Second Regiment have seen it, but they have all been given a password to prevent it from spreading outside.

The Eighth Route Army kept the detailed information strictly confidential.

I'm just guessing that this weapon should be obtained by that person named Yuan Lang. "

"Yuan Lang, it's him again?" Masuko Shigeo thought to himself.

He was certainly disappointed that he did not get more detailed information from Katyusha.

But it is not in vain to get this guess.

Mashiko Shigeo heard from Maeda Jiro that the commander of Okamura Ningji personally ordered this person to be captured alive.

The importance of this person can be seen.

Shigeo Masuko then asked some more questions.

I learned that the arsenal of the Eighth Route Army is very tightly guarded, and there is also a special guard battalion guarding all passages.

There are special personnel to carry out the transportation of arms and materials back and forth.

It is basically impossible to sneak close.

Shigeo Mashiko immediately ruled out the idea of ​​destroying the arsenal, but secretly remembered the approximate location of the arsenal and prepared to pass on the information.

Let the troops who are about to come to the big raid think about the destruction.

The second most important target is the Eighth Route Army Command of the Zhongtiaoshan Military Region.

It is equivalent to the brain of the Eighth Route Army of the entire sub-military region. If it can be destroyed, the entire Eighth Route Army will be leaderless.

Provide the most powerful foreshadowing for the sweep and wipe out of the Eighth Route Army.

Unfortunately, this bold idea is also difficult to realize.

Mashiko Shigeo learned that there is a guard company in the headquarters of the sub-military region, which works in three shifts for protection.

The most important thing is that a reinforced battalion of the New Second Regiment, eight infantry companies, and a machine gun company are stationed next to it.

Let's not talk about how difficult it is to sneak into the city and rely on the past.

If the short-term sneak attack fails, the ending is doomed.

A battalion of the New Second Regiment is enough to crush an infantry brigade.

Mashiko Shigeo was not yet confident enough to use his dozens of people to fight against such a reinforcement battalion.

It seems that Yuan Lang is the best to deal with.

He is a person, and he is easier to deal with than a group of people.

And the importance of this person is no less than the first two.

A large amount of weapons, equipment and ammunition can be obtained, as well as large arsenal machinery, and now there is even a mysterious weapon named Katyusha.

Shigeo Mashiko has many problems, the first two.

Where did these things come from, and who is supporting the Eighth Route Army against the Great Japanese Empire?

What kind of channels did they use to avoid the blockade of the empire and transport things in?
The former is related to who is the enemy of the empire.

There are only a few who can become enemies of the empire, and they may all affect national policy.

The latter is related to the loopholes of the empire.

Economic blockade and material blockade have always been important ways to deal with the anti-Japanese armed forces.

They were forced to have no guns and ammunition to fight against the imperial army.

There is no food, drink or clothing, and even survival is a problem.

Under such a strategy, the Anti-Japanese Alliance in Manchukuo has been completely wiped out.

In the Chongqing government in the south, Wang Xiaoer's life is not as good as the new year.

It may not be long before they will have no choice but to surrender to the Empire of Japan due to lack of supplies and economic collapse.

In North China, the Eighth Route Army is the most important enemy of the imperial army, not one of them.

If they can not be affected by the blockade, they will receive a large amount of external aid, arms and supplies.

Bad consequences, it will definitely slide in the direction that the imperial army doesn't want to see.

Capturing Yuan Lang alive, this mysterious middleman, seems to be more important than the previous two combined.

Mashiko Shigeo solemnly told No. .

"Pay close attention to Yuan Lang's situation, and contact me as soon as you have information."

(End of this chapter)