Thirty miles north of Huaxian County, outside Junxian County.
The village is shrouded in hazy moonlight.
It's quiet at night.
The cavalry major was lying in the dilapidated courtyard, staring at the deep sky with half-squinted eyes, feeling inexplicably bursts of sadness in his heart.
With the Ministry of Military Affairs abolishing the cavalry department last year and establishing the armored force department, the cavalry is gradually declining.
The cavalry became a search regiment and was ordered to transform into mechanized armored forces. In Meixian, a squadron was lost, and there was basically no hope of promotion. News came from the base camp that the cavalry would be merged into other divisions.
As the war horses occasionally neighed, except for the imperial elite, there was not a single living person in the village.
His mind slowly calmed down.
As the occupied areas continued to expand, there was a serious shortage of troops and they could only occupy towns, while the resisting guerrillas hid in the countryside and moved around like rats.
In order to ensure the safety of the railway line, the headquarters formulated a new operational plan. The cage policy has begun to bear fruit, and the fish has taken the bait.
As long as this Eight Route Army in the plain is completely wiped out, there will no longer be an organized resistance force in the entire Jizhong Plain.
For this reason, he has been in this village for three days. In other directions, there are three more silent cavalry teams like him!
They did not even dispatch cavalry scouts to search and remained completely silent. It was impossible for Tuba Road to know the current location of the cavalry.
The movements of the Eighth Route Army are always under control. Maybe tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow at the latest, everything will be settled.
At that time, after successfully clearing the occupied areas, they can then attack the struggling national army in the south with all their strength. Coupled with the early infiltration negotiations of the Super High School, it is only a matter of time before they can be included.
However, this plan is too large and complicated.
After daybreak, they launched an attack southward with lightning speed. Two hours later, the cavalry attacking from all sides would become a nightmare for Tubal Road who dared to attack Qixian...
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The big dog yawned and pushed the door open into Lao Zhou's house: "What the hell... you haven't slept yet?"
"It's so late, what's wrong?" Lao Zhou looked tired in front of the electric light.
"What the hell, the military police just called and asked us to prepare fodder, bean cakes, and corn! They will be delivered outside the west city gate early tomorrow morning..."
"What...mean?" Lao Zhou yawned.
"What do you think, aren't these things meant for feeding animals? I think they are for war horses!"
"War horse? Where can there be a war horse?" Old Zhou looked surprised.
"Of course there are none in the city. Most of the cavalry are passing through Hua County and coming to our place for supplies."
"Uh, let's get ready then? By the way... how much do they need to prepare?"
"Three thousand catties of hay, one thousand catties of corn, one thousand catties of bean cakes...and water."
"So many? How many cavalry are there?" Old Zhou was wary.
"Hey, they asked us to prepare, so we prepare? What a beautiful idea." Tian Sanqi's voice came from outside the house.
"What should we do?" Lao Zhou raised his head and looked at the door.
"I went to the warehouse to look at it, and I was wondering why there was so much grass in the city. Since we are doing this, we have to add some ingredients to them." Tian Sanqi picked up the water glass from the table and took a sip.
"Did you tell where the cavalry came from?" Old Zhou asked Tang Dagou.
"No, I just sent him outside the Ximen Palace River."
"Hurry up and wake up the girl next door. Let's have a meeting."
After three o'clock in the morning, the doors of traditional Chinese medicine shops in the city rang loudly: "Hurry up and open the door, the Imperial Association Army wants to buy medicine."
After a while, the door opened.
"Ba Dou? The store has the goods!" Zhang refused cautiously.
The medicine buyer looked anxious: "How many are there? I want them all!"
The shopkeeper's tone suddenly became calm, and he looked at a man in black outside the door. Behind that man were several Imperial Army soldiers with guns on their backs: "If it's less than a pound, no credit will be given!"
Lao Zhou's heart suddenly sank to the bottom: The Japanese want so much food and grass, how can one pound be enough?
A thin line appeared on the distant skyline to the north, and the cavalry appeared, carrying with them plumes of dust that dispersed in the morning light.
More than a dozen war horses rushed directly outside the West Gate Stone Bridge across the river. A dozen security troops were directing the minions to move grain and grass out of the city. When the horse team arrived, a Japanese military policeman greeted them.
The cavalry sergeant who arrived first dismounted from his saddle and handed the reins to the cavalry behind him.
He picked up a handful of corn, squeezed the bean cake, and patted Tang Dagou on the shoulder with a riding crop: "Thank you for your hard work!"
The big dog's knuckles turned white. He stared hard at the sergeant's neck and replied with difficulty: "What the hell...it's not hard..."
Seeing that the Chinese in front were nervous, the sergeant laughed loudly and ordered his men to take some corn and bean cakes and put them into bags.
Then he talked to the Japanese military policeman with a smile.
After a while, the cavalry mounted their horses and ran away.
"Hey, can you do this?" On the city tower, Lao Zhou asked the girl who was holding a telescope to see the excitement outside the city.
"How do I know if it works? Even if those herbs are not poisonous, if they are all mixed into the grass, they will not kill the horses, but they will always cause some problems." The girl put down the telescope and smiled proudly.
Lao Zhou was speechless. The hand in his pocket was holding a few ginseng picked out from the Chinese medicine mixed with the grass.
Many of these herbs are platycodon, licorice, and panax notoginseng. Except for those two pounds of croton, can they eat into a bad horse's belly?
How can it be?
Jiulian is really all a loser...
The Chinese medicines in the two pharmacies in the city were wiped out by the security forces. I don't know how much they were worth. Three hundred military bills and one hundred oceans were used to buy the two shabby shops.
The shopkeeper recalled what happened last night, his face full of worry. He had no idea what the security forces were doing with so many medicines. A team of people poured all the medicines in the cabinets together and took them away.
The two shopkeepers drove the donkey cart out of the city at dawn.
Can a myrrh shop still be called a medicine shop?
Since the security forces did not owe the debt this time and gave the money on the spot, of course they had to find a way to borrow some from their colleagues in the neighboring county.
The cavalry major had a gloomy face. The troops set out early in the morning. An hour later, after advancing thirty miles, the leading troops had reached the supply point.
Early in the morning, I received news from the Division Headquarters radio station that Qixian County was attacked again by the Eighth Route Army last night. Moreover, the Eighth Route Army also dispatched infantry artillery to attack the county seat at night. The city gates in all four directions were bombarded. rotten.
The Major looked at the forage corn and bean cakes prepared by the river, and his mood became much happier. He subconsciously raised his telescope to observe the Huaxian Building.
The scenery in the lens shook for a while. There seemed to be a soldier holding a telescope at a crenel. The key was that the soldier had something vague on top of his head. When he looked carefully, he didn't see it.
Did he sleep too late yesterday and hallucinate?
There are two rivers in the west of Huaxian County, one is the Wei River and the other is the Dagong River. In the slightly undulating yellow terrain between the two rivers, there is still forty miles away from the target. A replenishment is necessary, mainly water and fodder. .
With an order, Huang pressed a large cavalry team and began to dismount and rest, wiping sweat and replenishing water on the horses. Some horses took the time to chew some grass.
The major jumped off his horse, said hello to the military police who were waiting early, and asked to find out that the Imperial Alliance Army in the city had set out yesterday.
Nodding with satisfaction.
The Japanese soldier next to him had already pulled out a marching blanket and laid a map on it.
The major and several other captains and lieutenants gathered around him, looking at the map and studying it.
After a while, the major asked the radio operator running next to him: "Has the latest situation been transmitted?"
"Contact has been made. All units will be in place in an hour. At the current speed, our unit will arrive at the designated position in an hour. All the attacking troops from various places responsible for outflanking have arrived at the designated position last night!"
"Are you sure about the attack time?"
"Not yet. According to previous experience, all ministries should arrive on the scene and launch the attack in an hour or so!"
The major was silent for a while, silently calculating the time in his mind. After arriving at the position, he would coordinate the Imperial Army to form a formation, and together with other attacking troops, surround the Eighth Route Army attacking Qixian County.
"Notify all departments to set off in ten minutes and be sure to arrive at the designated location in the east of Qixian County in an hour!"
A burst of birds chirped and screamed as soon as the scene was heard, and the busy Japs station got on their horses and sorted out their equipment.
The Japanese in charge of logistics pressed the bundles of fodder onto both sides of the packhorse and tied them tightly.
The cavalry lined up skillfully and moved slowly.
