Blood-Red Front

At the newly established military outpost, Ono was still on guard duty.

Just as Ono was feeling a bit bored and wanted to slack off, he suddenly saw a group of dark figures approaching from a distance.

After counting the approximate number, Ono instinctively shuddered, feeling the pain in his face return.

When Lin Zhiyuan led his team to the outpost, he saw Xiao Ye standing ramrod straight and immediately slapped him twice across the face.

"Baka yarou!"

"How dare you be so rude! Don't you know you should greet your superiors?!"

Ono was completely stunned, seeing stars after being slapped twice across the face.

Wasn't it because you greeted them proactively in the first half of the night that you were beaten? Why are you being beaten now even if you don't greet them?

How can I avoid getting beaten up?

Without giving the newly recruited sentry time to react, Lin Zhiyuan shouted, "Do you know you're wrong?!"

"Hi!"

Ono instinctively stood at attention.

"Baka... If you know you're wrong, you should correct it. This kind of thing must never happen again!"

"Hi!"

Ono didn't know what the right thing to do was, but now was clearly not the time to ask.

Seeing the utterly obedient newly promoted sentries, Lin Zhiyuan nodded in satisfaction and waved his hand: "Continue on!"

The newly ascended priestess, being carried along, stared wide-eyed at the infiltration team's unimpeded passage and struggled incessantly.

"Waaah! Waaah!..."

However, newly promoted sentries would obviously not stand up for a woman dressed in Xia Kingdom civilian clothes, after all, they had seen this kind of thing more than once.

Ono remained standing at attention, continuing to escort the infiltration team.

After Lin Zhiyuan and the others had gone some distance, the two people on the observation platform came down again.

"Ono-kun, what's going on? Why are you attacking again?"

"I don't know either." Ono covered her face, almost crying.

I was supposed to change shifts in half an hour, but I ended up catching the last bus.

The two men exchanged a glance, and one of them said, "Ono-kun, how about we switch shifts early? You go and rest, and I'll take over."

"Thank you so much," Ono said, her eyes brimming with tears.

"Thank you for your hard work, Ono-kun."

The two patted Ono on the shoulder.

……

On the other side, relying on the information on the minimap, Lin Zhiyuan once again led his team to swim across the Wen River.

The newly appointed priestess nearly drowned in the Warm River because her hands and feet were bound.

However, to avoid being mowed down by the newly promoted army, Lin Zhiyuan had the rag stuffed in her mouth removed only after they returned to the regimental headquarters.

At this moment, the newly promoted priestess was already deathly pale.

As soon as the rag was removed from her mouth, the newly ascended priestess immediately began to cough violently, spitting out a lot of dirty water from her mouth and nose.

Ignoring the coughing shaman, Lin Zhiyuan first instructed, "Hand over the radio and codebook to the communications company to see if we can rebuild the radio team, and then intercept the initial army's telegrams."

Lin Zhiyuan went to great lengths to bring back this radio station, hoping it could intercept intelligence.

"The communications unit also has radio operators. I'll have them check if it's usable." Zhong Ning immediately took the radio to the communications unit.

Looking at the priestess sitting on the ground, Lin Zhiyuan asked again, "Have you thought it through? Do you want to cooperate?"

The newly ascended priestess remained silent.

Seeing this, the head of the security department said, "Commander, why don't we hand her over to the security department? They'll definitely get her to talk."

"Take him away." Lin Zhiyuan waved his hand.

"However, try to avoid causing irreversible damage, and you must act quickly."

"Understood!" The head of the security department nodded.

The most important thing about intelligence is timeliness. If you can't get her to talk in a short time, the information she has is basically useless.

The newly ascended priestess had the same idea: if she could stall until dawn, the truck in the ditch would be discovered, and her superiors, upon learning of her disappearance, would naturally change their plans and adjust their forces.

However, the newly ascended priestess clearly overestimated her own backbone. Once inside the interrogation room, she spilled all the information she knew in less than half an hour.

……

"Captain, this is the statement from the newly ascended priestess."

Lin Zhiyuan breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the head of the security department enter.

Shang Kebing cooked a large pot of ginger soup, and everyone in the infiltration team drank two bowls.

Lin Zhiyuan had already finished five bowls, but Shang Kebing was still ladling more for him.

Taking the opportunity to put down the ginger soup, Lin Zhiyuan accepted the witch's confession.

"Eri, female, 22 years old... She can sense the location of artillery positions?!" Lin Zhiyuan was somewhat surprised.

"It's been confirmed repeatedly." The head of the security section nodded. "Her purpose in going to the front line was to destroy the artillery positions of the 6th Regiment."

Zhong Ning, who was standing to the side, said, "I've heard before that some newly promoted soldiers can guide artillery in counter-battery operations."

"However, they mostly work in artillery regiments or heavy artillery battalions and rarely appear on the front lines."

Lin Zhiyuan nodded. "It seems that yesterday's attack on the Rising Sun Army's tanks and heavy machine guns hurt them."

"Is it possible to turn Eri against us?"

This is a humanoid artillery radar, which is extremely important for counter-battery operations.

"I'm afraid it will be difficult." The head of the security department shook his head.

During the interrogation, Eri was quite forthcoming about intelligence matters, but when it came to the topic of defection, she displayed extreme fanaticism.

He kept muttering things like "The Rising Kingdom is where the sun rises" and "The Empress is the spokesperson for the Rising Sun God," making him look like a lunatic.

"The newly formed army already possessed advantages in artillery and air superiority, and now it also has the advantage of counter-artillery..."

"Damn it, they got all the benefits." Lin Zhiyuan said helplessly.

"Does Eri have any other information to report? Where is the enemy's command post?"

The head of the security section reported, "She landed at the mouth of the Dahuang River and received orders to provide support to the 23rd Regiment."

"However, she only knew that the headquarters of the 23rd Regiment was in the Zhangcun area, but the exact location was unknown."

"Zhangcun?" Lin Zhiyuan looked at the map. Zhangcun is at least four kilometers away from Wenhe.

"No wonder we couldn't find the enemy's forward command post; it turns out they were hiding so far away."

Normally, a regimental command post is usually located 1.5-2 kilometers behind the position, and at most no more than 3 kilometers.

However, the 23rd Regiment's command post was a full 4 kilometers away from the front line, which was not only far away but also remote.

If it weren't for the numerous waterways in the Binxi area, which required the initial-lift truck to cross bridges along the highway, Lin Zhiyuan would never have been able to catch Eri.

Just as Lin Zhiyuan was thinking about how to strike the enemy command post, the communications company commander ran in.

"Commander, we have intercepted important intelligence and discovered the location of the enemy's 101st Division."

"Where?"

Lin Zhiyuan was surprised by this unexpected gain and became excited.

If Xia Jun can destroy the 101st Division's command post, Chu Sheng Army's offensive will inevitably be affected across the board, and the 6th Regiment will also benefit from it.

"Kawaguchi, Wang's house."

Lin Zhiyuan immediately looked at the map.

Zhong Ning, who was standing nearby, explained, "The Wang family are well-known merchants in Binxi. They have always done business with foreigners."

"16 kilometers, that's too far, we can't hit him." Lin Zhiyuan said with a regretful expression.

The Xia army's strongest weapon is currently the 150mm howitzer, but its maximum range is only 15 kilometers.

Just as everyone was feeling sorry for him, Shang Kebing spoke up.

"Young master, we can hit it."

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