But what about this time? It's still the same goal, it's still the previous independent regiment, and this time there is only one guard platoon at the headquarters of the independent regiment.
Logically speaking, this operation can be successful with eyes closed. Last time they faced the entire independent group, they were able to achieve such an excellent battle loss ratio.
Now it's just a guard platoon, isn't it easy to catch? But who would have thought that when the fight started, things would instantly go wrong.
Obviously the number of people is much smaller than last time, but why is the firepower so strong? This is the first time when facing an independent group of more than a thousand people.
Yamamoto Kazuki's special agent team escaped easily, and now this time they faced a guard platoon and more than a hundred recruits.
Their total strength was only a little over 200, but they directly blocked the progress of their special agent team, and at the same time, they lost eighteen little devils.
Whenever Yamamoto Kazuki thinks of this, he feels distressed in his heart. After all, his special agent team only has about eighty people in total, and now he has lost eighteen people all at once.
It was almost a quarter of his troops, which was considered a heavy loss, and it also made Yamamoto Kazuki very confused.
It was obviously the same unit, but why was there such a big difference in performance before and after? So, when we returned to the little devil's Taiyuan headquarters.
Kazuki Yamamoto reported this situation to Yoshio Shinozuka, and then under the order of Yoshio Shinozuka, the little Japanese launched an investigation into the Eighth Route Army.
It's just that the Eighth Route Army did a good job in keeping secrets, so the little devil didn't find any useful information at first.
After nearly a month of investigation, the little devil finally found some clues.
I saw the little devil's chief of staff coming to Yoshio Shinozuka with a piece of information to report.
"Reporting to General, we already have some clues about what you asked us to investigate some time ago. According to intelligence, the Eighth Route Army has indeed undergone some major changes recently."
"The biggest change among them is their weapons and equipment. Through our investigation, we learned that many units of the Eighth Route Army are equipped with a new type of rifle."
"This rifle seems to be produced independently by the Eighth Route Army. Many Eighth Route Army troops have seen this rifle. This should be the gun that Colonel Yamamoto mentioned last time."
They knew very well that the biggest reason for the failure of Yamamoto Kazuki's last operation was this weapon, according to Yamamoto Kazuki's last report.
The guard platoon of the Eighth Route Army Independent Regiment and the new recruits are equipped with a new rifle they have never seen before. This rifle has a strong fire suppression effect.
At least it was much stronger than their 38 Da Gai. At that time, this situation attracted the attention of the top brass of the Little Devils on the battlefield of China.
The overall performance of their 38-inch cap is very good, much better than the rifles independently produced by China, otherwise.
The Eighth Route Army would not like their 38-gai so much, but now Kazuki Yamamoto does indeed have the Eighth Route Army equipped with a rifle that is suspected to be stronger than their 38-gai.
How could Yoshio Shinozuka sit still? They have been dealing with the Eighth Route Army for so many years, and they have always regarded the Eighth Route Army as a serious problem.
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However, because the weapons and equipment of the Eighth Route Army are very backward, so at this stage, it does not pose much threat to them.
But it would be different if the Eighth Route Army solved the problem of backward weapons and equipment, so when Yoshio Shinozuka learned about this situation from Kazuki Yamamoto.
Intelligence personnel were dispatched immediately to investigate the relevant information about this so-called new rifle of the Eighth Route Army.
No, after investigating for so long, I finally found some clues, when Yoshio Shinozuka received the information from the chief of staff.
His face turned gloomy instantly. What he was most worried about had happened. The Eighth Route Army had begun to equip them on a large scale.
This means that this weapon was independently produced by the Eighth Route Army. When the investigation began, Yoshio Shinozuka was lucky.
I thought it was just the Eighth Route Army's luck that they picked it up from somewhere, or it was aided by foreign countries, but I didn't expect that it was actually made by the Eighth Route Army themselves.
This is undoubtedly the worst outcome for them. After reading the contents of the intelligence, Yoshio Shinozuka said with an ugly face.
“Does this rifle have its specific capabilities?”
The chief of staff on the side shook his head.
"Sorry, General, we currently don't have a sample of this rifle from the Eighth Route Army. They seem to have blocked information about it very tightly."
"It took us a lot of effort to investigate. As for which arsenal of the Eighth Route Army manufactured this rifle, we have not yet found out at this stage."
"What is certain is that, at least in the eyes of the Eighth Route Army, this rifle is stronger than our rifle, because we found out."
"The vast majority of the Eighth Route Army's troops are equipped with this new rifle. This shows that our rifles are no longer the first choice of the Eighth Route Army."
Once upon a time, their rifles had always been the favorite rifles of the Eighth Route Army. Not long ago, the Eighth Route Army developed a more powerful rifle.
It directly replaced the status of the 38th Great Gai in the eyes of the Eighth Route Army. I can only say that it makes people think of a sentence, will love disappear?
When Yoshio Shinozuka heard this, he immediately became furious.
"Baga, what does the intelligence department do? It's been a month and you haven't even found the location of the arsenal where the Eighth Route Army manufactured this rifle?"
"Given you another half month, you must find this arsenal and destroy it. Otherwise, it may affect our empire's plans."
"Hayi!"
The chief of staff couldn't help but feel so miserable when he thought that it would take half a month to investigate. It took him a month to find some clues.
Now it takes half a month to investigate clearly. The task is very arduous. A normal investigation will definitely not work. So, the chief of staff had an idea.
In the blink of an eye, it was two days later. At this time, a strange troop appeared in the Eighth Route Army's defense area. Although these people were wearing Eighth Route Army uniforms.
But when they walked, they looked a little wretched. These people were the puppet soldiers arranged by the Japs to pretend to be soldiers. This was also the idea of the Japs' chief of staff.
Under normal circumstances, it would be almost impossible to investigate clearly in half a month, so he had no choice but to think of this method.
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