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Chapter 1,296: For food (asking for monthly votes)

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    The capture of Laiyuan City and the death of Major General Daocun can be said to be the biggest challenge faced by the North China Front Army throughout October. This was naturally considered by the North China Front Army Headquarters in the previous raids and regarded as a continuation of the Eighth Route Army's strategic plan.

    There is no way, the Eighth Route Army¡¯s raid last year left a huge psychological shadow on the Japanese!

    And the scale of that battle was far larger than this one. In addition, Laiyuan has always been the exclusive territory of the Eighth Route Army. It is impossible for other troops except the Eighth Route Army to appear there.

    The Japanese naturally blamed the Eighth Route Army for this incident. Even if Li Guoyao himself jumped out and said that I did it, no one would believe it.

    Well, things in the world are so magical!

    Except for such a big thing, Okamura Neiji naturally would not let it go. He immediately sent a report to Lieutenant General Ganpa Jutaro, the commander of the Mongolian Army in Zhangjiakou, ordering them to immediately dispatch elite forces to recapture Laiyuan City.

    After receiving the order, Ganpa Chongtaro immediately did not dare to neglect, and directly mobilized more than 8,000 main troops from Zhangjiakou and Datong, and advanced towards Laiyuan in two directions!

    After receiving the report from the intelligence department, Li Guoyao immediately ordered the troops to evacuate the Laiyuan and Lingqiu lines. It was not that Li Guoyao was afraid of the Japs, but that he knew that now was not the time to fight with the Japs.

    On the contrary, the main force of the Japanese army went south to Laiyuan. The sudden drop in defensive power in Datong, Zhangjiakou and other places was a good opportunity for them to go north.

    On October 22, when the main force of the independent brigade withdrew from Laiyuan, all miner troops acted as vanguards, starting from the mountainous area south of Lingqiu and heading north, aiming directly at Sumu Mountain in Chanan.

    At this time, Lu Dashan¡¯s headquarters had already entered the front line of Sumu Mountain in accordance with Li Guoyao¡¯s instructions, and quietly controlled more than a dozen hills near Sumu Mountain!

    On the 24th, after more than two days of rapid march, the Japanese army from the direction of Datong arrived at Lingqiu first!

    After being blocked by Li Guoyao's troops west of Lingqiu, they stopped at the front line of Donghenan Town.

    Immediately afterwards, the troops coming from the direction of Zhangjiakou also arrived at Yu County. When Li Guoyao retreated, he sent two battalions to ambush on the mountain road between Yu County and Laiyuan. Then the two battalions attacked Feihuyu and Shishi  Liyu and other places fought six times in succession with the independent second mixed brigade going south, and they blocked the area north of Shisiliyu with thousands of remaining soldiers from the independent second mixed brigade plus Laiyuan guard brigade.

    In fact, the blocking war in these two directions was not that Li Guoyao really wanted to prevent the Japanese army from attacking Laiyuan, but to buy time for the transfer of rear troops.

    This time in Laiyuan City, Li Guoyao's troops made a lot of money. Not to mention how much weapons, equipment and ammunition were obtained, the amount of food alone was shocking.

    The troops seized not much coarse and fine grain from the warehouses controlled by the Japanese and puppet troops. The total amount was only 600,000 to 700,000 jins, including more than 100,000 jins of black beans for mules and horses.

    However, the amount of grain obtained from the landlords, evil gentry and wealthy businessmen was actually three times that amount. More than one million kilograms of it was confiscated from the homes of the several traitor leaders who were shot to death.  Li Dehai, the pseudo-county magistrate of Laiyuan, had his family confiscated 700,000 kilograms of grain at once, as well as 800,000 silver dollars, 5,000 taels of gold, and countless other legal tenders, military notes, antiques, calligraphy, paintings, and artifacts.

    In addition, the convicted landlords and merchants paid more than 500,000 jins of atonement grain. Later, Li Guoyao purchased more than 300,000 jins from other landlords, and the final total was nearly 2.5 million jins.

    These are the weight of grains, not counting cooking oil, salt, sugar, tea and meat. There are more than 100,000 kilograms of miscellaneous things!

    How to transport so many things is indeed a big problem. After all, this era does not have as many means of transportation as in later generations. Just two hundred-ton kings can transport these materials.

    At present, the main force of transportation is mule and carriage, whose load capacity is about two thousand kilograms. Even the best carriage will not exceed three thousand kilograms.

    This three million kilograms of supplies requires at least a thousand carts. There are so many carts in a small Laiyuan City!

    What's more important is that when Li Guoyao's troops went north to Chanan, many places were mountainous areas without roads. It was possible for people to walk on horseback, but not for horse-drawn carriages.

    In desperation, Li Guoyao could only take out all the war horses and pack horses in the army, and gathered 4,000 horses to carry supplies.

    He asked the soldiers to carry 400 kilograms of grain on each war horse, and they transported more than 1.6 million kilograms in one go!

    After that, Li Guoyao took??With all the nearly 3 million yuan seized in Laiyuan City this time, more than 2,000 mules, horses and donkeys were purchased from local people and landowners at a premium, and finally all the materials were transported away.

    But this all takes time. When the Japanese army arrived at the periphery of the battlefield, there was still a small amount of supplies that had not had time to be transported away, so Li Guoyao sent troops to stop the Japanese army.

    Starting from the 24th, the two sides fought for three days outside Laiyuan. After all the troops, including the 1st Regiment of the Independent Brigade, all moved north, the troops responsible for blocking the Japanese army took advantage of the night to evacuate.

    When the Japanese army prepared to continue the attack on the morning of the 27th, they found that the "Tubal Road" on the opposite position had already evacuated, leaving them with only empty trenches and not even an empty shell casing.

    Although they had realized that Tubal Road might have been withdrawn, the Japanese army still followed the original battle plan and headed towards Lingqiu and Laiyuan!

    At noon on the 27th, the main force of the 26th Division occupied Lingqiu. At the same time, the independent mixed second brigade heading south from Zhangjiakou also re-captured Laiyuan City.

    When these Japanese devils reoccupied these two places, they immediately contacted the local pro-Japanese elements and learned about what happened in the city in the past few days. They did not dare to neglect and immediately reported the situation to the direction of Peiping.

    After receiving the situation from the frontline troops, Okamura Neji was immediately shocked!

    ¡° Tubal Road has also carried out operations to suppress traitors before, but it will not be as thorough as this time, not only killing people, but also confiscating property.

    What¡¯s more important is that Tubal Road has emptied all the excess food in the entire Laiyuan area at once. No matter who is stationed in Laiyuan now, the first thing to solve is the food problem.

    If the Imperial Japanese Army continues to force the people in the area to provide food as before, let alone whether the skinny people who have been exploited can get the food, even if they can, it will inevitably arouse strong opposition from the local people.  Resistant.

    Because before this, the Laiyuan Guard Brigade had collected agricultural taxes from these people, and if they came to ask for food now, it would be equivalent to forcing them to turn to those Tuba Road.

    " Moreover, Tubal Road suddenly obtained millions of kilograms of grain from the Laiyuan area this time, which was equivalent to solving the problem of winter food for the troops. Such a large amount of food not only stabilized Tubal Road's military morale, but also served as a fundamental guarantee for their expansion.

    This method is cruel. It not only dug a big hole for the Imperial Japanese Army, but also solved the food problem on Tubal Road. The other party's commander is definitely a genius!

    Frightened and angry, Okamura Neiji immediately sent his chief of staff, Lieutenant General Adachi 23, to take people to Laiyuan in person. First, he wanted to investigate the situation on the front line, and at the same time, he asked Lieutenant General Adachi to find a way to figure out the situation.  The whereabouts of batches of grain should be tracked and efforts should be made to recover the grain as much as possible.

    "After all, millions of kilograms of grain are not easy to digest, nor are they easy to hide. If you trace it carefully, you may have a chance to get it back.

    Soon, a war over food will begin!

    ps: The third chapter has been delivered, and it has been pushed to the tenth place on the monthly vote list today. The author really feels bad, hey, I won¡¯t talk about it anymore, just code!  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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