As mentioned before, there is a dirt road along the Qingzhang River from Shexian County to Matian. Horses can pass it, carriages can pass it, people can pass it, and cars can barely pass it.

When the security group returned north, Hu Yizhou asked the soldiers to repair some dangerous, difficult, narrow and uneven places. In some places, simple wooden bridges were erected for the army to pass.

Now, everything is destroyed.

After Zhang Jiahao and the soldiers from the engineering company helped the transportation company transport supplies to Foyadi Village, they marched non-stop towards Wangbao and finally arrived at Wangbao Village at night.

While the military rabbits were busy moving the masses and the companies of the security group were lining up everywhere to find favorable terrain, Zhang Jiahao and Huang He led more than 200 young and strong villagers recruited temporarily to start the great cause of destruction!

This process lasted three days and three nights. Later, with the help of more people, they had set up countless traps on the twenty-kilometer road from Wangbao Village to the bottom of Foya.

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On April 4, Colonel Katagiri, commander of the 9th Regiment of the 16th Division, moved his regiment headquarters to Shexian County. Under his order, two brigades and an artillery squadron began to march towards Asada.

The intelligence obtained by Colonel Katagiri showed that stationed in Asada was the 4th Cavalry Division of the Northeastern Army, now under Bald Qiang's Central Army. In addition, there was also a unit organized as a security regiment to assist in the defense.

Colonel Katagiri hated these two troops because the defenders of Shexian County were completely wiped out by the Fourth Cavalry Division and the security regiment more than ten days ago. Of course, all his hatred was directed at the Fourth Cavalry Division.

, as for the security team, he didn't care at all.

Why the Fourth Cavalry Division? Not the Security Group?

Well, when Hu Yizhou reported the battle report on the temporary occupation of Shexian County, he reported both the 47th Army and the 4th Cavalry Division... Is this what he is doing... to deceive others, shift targets, disperse firepower... In short, he is downplaying his own security

The impression of the group...it's safe...

In Shexian County, Captain Katagiri looked at the march map and calculated when his two brigades could reach the Matian area. It's just a cavalry division, which is our food! If you don't say anything, eat him!

As for the security group? What is that? In his eyes, the security group is just a group of local armed men who are no better than the bandits. The so-called security groups he encountered before were either recruited by the bandits.

Or they were adapted from the private armies of some wealthy landlords and businessmen.

They were all sallow and thin, wearing various colors of clothes, holding old-fashioned rifles, even shotguns, some holding farm tools, and even some children inside. As soon as the imperial army's guns rang out, they either turned around and ran away, or they just raised their weapons.

They surrendered with their hands, or they were so frightened that they waited for the imperial army's bayonets to pierce their chests...

This is the image of the security team in Colonel Katagiri's mind...

The two infantry brigades left the city gate and drove all the way north. At first, the march went smoothly, but the soldiers sent to several villages along the way did not gain anything, so they had to light a few houses on fire to vent their anger.

They didn't even think about it. They were killing people everywhere when they first arrived in Shexian County. Why didn't the people run away and wait to die?

Because they have to be vigilant at all times, the Japanese army is not marching very fast. Who knows if the Eighth Route Army, which likes to conduct ambushes, will attack them when they are not paying attention? Yes, the Japanese intelligence shows that there are Eighth Route guerrillas nearby.

In action!

After this period of experience, the Japanese have become more fearful of the guerrillas than the regular army...

The further north you go, the harder the road is to walk, the mountains on both sides become steeper, the rivers become narrower, and the valleys through which the rivers flow become narrower. The Japs walking along the river can't help but become nervous.

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Lieutenant Colonel Edogawa, the captain of the First Battalion, was sitting in his military vehicle, and next to him was his adjutant Saburo Mori. Neither of them spoke, just listening to the heavy footsteps of the soldiers guarding both sides and thinking deeply.

The road in this section is relatively wide. In the middle of the road are 94 military trucks pulling supplies, and on both sides are Japanese soldiers marching on foot.

The marching column of the little devils was either led by some cavalry, or by soldiers riding sidecar motorcycles with machine guns. This time was no exception, with 6 sidecar motorcycles marching 500 meters in front of the marching army.

In front of the column, I stopped from time to time and looked at the cliffs on both sides.

The car at the front of the large queue was filled with Japanese soldiers. There was a 92-height gun on the roof, and there were Japanese soldiers walking on both sides of the car. There had to be a small group of soldiers!

Then each small team was separated by about a hundred meters from the large force behind them. This was the Japanese's preparation for facing emergencies.

The truck was parked while walking, waiting for the infantry on both sides. The machine gunner on the truck would occasionally turn the muzzle of his gun to shoot at the hillsides on both sides. Is this to alert the enemy?

There is a saying in China that the first bird is shot with a gun, and there is also a saying that the wood is beautiful in the forest. But the Japanese soldiers in this car obviously have not heard these two sentences. At this moment, they are chatting passionately in the car.

"Akita-kun, would you like one?"

"Ha Yi, thank you Sakamoto-kun! It's great. This time we can fight for the Emperor of Heaven again. We have been resting for such a long time and our bodies are all rusty!"

"Yes, yes, I don't feel tired when fighting, but when I stop to rest, my waist and legs are sore, my energy is low, and I feel like my whole body has been hollowed out!"

"Watanabe, you were hollowed out in the comfort station, right? Haha..."

"By the way, Akiyama-kun, can you show everyone the photo of your beautiful child?" Watanabe said.

"Here, this is my Meiko. I will marry him when I return home after the war!" Akiyama showed off and handed a photo to Watanabe.

Watanabe carefully looked at the corners of the eyes of the pure and lovely beauty in the photo, and whispered to Akiyama, "Akiyama-kun, I have news to tell you, do you want to hear it?"

"Tell me and listen." Qiu Shan didn't care.

"It's like this. When I go to the comfort station these days, there is always a comfort woman from our country who greets me. She says her name is Noda Miko, and her fiancé is called Akiyama Ippei. She looks exactly the same as the fiancée in your photo, right down to the corners of her eyes.

The moles are all the same..." Watanabe didn't say any more.

"Watanabe, are you lying to me?" Akiyama didn't believe it.

"It's absolutely true, I looked at it very carefully..." Watanabe's expression was very solemn.

"Eight Yalu!" Qiu Shan suddenly stood up.

at this time……

"Boom..." A violent explosion sounded from beneath their feet.

A plank laid flat under the earthen road was broken by the heavy weight of the truck, and the mine buried under the plank was detonated. The truck turned 180 degrees in the air with thick smoke and fire, then fell to the ground, turning into a
Chapter completed!