That morning, Yoshino, commander of the 12th Army of the Japanese Army, received a call from General Haneda, deputy chief of staff of the North China Front Army, and invited him to come to his office.

General Haneda is currently working in the office building of the 12th Army Command, not far from Togo Yoshino's office, and Togo Yoshino came here soon.

"Tongxiangjun." When he saw Togo Yoshino, General Haneda greeted enthusiastically.

After Togo Yoshino sat down, he said, "Hanida, you look very good. Do you have any happy things to share with me?"

General Haneda said, "There is something very happy, but it is not mine, but yours."

Togo Yoshino asked in confusion: "What is the joy about me? Where does the joy come from?"

General Haneda said, "I just got the news that Minister Toetaeyuan is interested in promoting you to Commander of the North China Front Army."

Togo Yoshino said in disbelief: "How is this possible? Why didn't I hear the news? The commander of Komura has just arrived for not long, so there is no reason to replace him."

General Haneda said: "I just got news from Tokyo that the current Deputy Minister of the Army will be retired, and the Commander of Minamura will return to Tokyo to take over as Deputy Minister of the Army. The troops of the 12th Army recently captured Tai'an Castle. Togo Junzhi's army is well-managed, which left a deep impression on Minister Tokita. He intends to promote you to Commander of the North China Front Army."

"So that's how it is." Togo Yoshino believed a little about Chief Haneda's words.

General Haneda said enthusiastically: "Congratulations to Toyoko, if you serve as the commander of the North China Front Army, you will be my immediate superior. In the future, I will ask the commander of Toyoko to take care of him." After that, General Haneda stood up and bowed to Toyoko Yoshino.

Togo Yoshino was in a good mood and said happily: "It must be certain. If this is the case, I will ask Haneda Jun to support him in the future."

General Haneda said happily: "Of course. Huye will do his best to assist the Commander."

Yoshino Togo said goodbye and left. He walked towards his office and felt overwhelmed with happiness.

However, he is also a veteran in the officialdom, so he still needs to find a way to confirm such news. He also has his own relationship in the Japanese base camp, so he asked his friends to inquire about the authenticity of what General Haneda said.

Not long after, news came from Tokyo. His friends did hear about this matter. Togo Yoshino believed it, and it seemed that this matter must be true.

He immediately reminded himself that at this critical moment, he must be careful and not make any mistakes, and do as much as possible to achieve achievements that can satisfy the peak.

As the saying goes, I will give you a pillow when I am sleepy. At this moment, Yoshino Togo received a secret telegram signed by Tu Feiyuan, asking him to take over the command of the epidemic prevention and water supply force transferred from the Kanto Army, and first launched a bacterial war in Shandong to destroy the bases of the underground party's anti-Japanese armed forces.

After receiving such an order, Togo Yoshino felt a little embarrassed. There are still certain risks in using biological and chemical weapons, such as explicitly prohibited weapons of mass destruction. If it were normal, he would find a way to shirk it.

But now it was at the critical moment when he was about to be promoted to commander of the North China Front Army that he had considered it over and over again and decided to accept this task.

However, he also took a scruple and informed General Haneda about this matter, asking General Haneda to ask the North China Front Command for the opinions.

General Haneda immediately stated that he would ask his superiors for instructions.

Not long after, he told Yoshino Toyoto that the North China Front Army required him to firmly implement the orders of His Excellency Minister Toohiyuan.

Since Togo Yoshino accepted the secret order of Minister Toohiyuan, he would make the decision on the specific implementation plan and related actions of biological and chemical weapons, and there was no need to ask the North China Front Army for instructions.

General Haneda has been dealing with Gao Jiu for a long time, and knowing that Gao Jiu has his own powerful intelligence network, the matter about this batch of biological and chemical weapons may not be hidden from him. Now this batch of biological and chemical weapons has arrived in Qingdao, how can they be transported to Jinan City? He reminded Yoshino Dongxiang to use his brain more and prevent Gao Jiu from intercepting it halfway.

Yoshino Togo was also very afraid of Gao Jiu. All the 240mm heavy mortars transported from Qingdao and Weihai were intercepted by Gao Jiu. He was vivid in his mind, and he could not believe the Japanese army in Qingdao at all.

He thought about it over and over again, called his adjutant and explained it to him.

Gao Jiu and others came to the outskirts of Qingdao and found a village to hide temporarily. They were waiting for news from Li San to report, preparing to intercept the Japanese army's epidemic prevention and water supply troops halfway.

In order to prevent accidents from happening to the team members, everyone, including Gao Jiu, prepared gas masks, rubber gloves and other protective equipment, and carried flamethrowers to directly burn the batch of biological and chemical weapons and completely destroy them.

Commander Hirata soon sent news to Li San that the local Japanese garrison sent a strengthening squadron to escort the epidemic prevention and water supply troops from the Kwantung Army and the supplies they carried, and had already gone to Jinan City.

Gao Jiu always felt something was wrong. The Japanese army had already suffered a lot of losses in his hands. The last time the 240mm heavy mortar actually played a trick and sent it to Weihai. This time it was transported to Jinan so directly, which seemed a bit unreasonable.

However, Gao Jiu did not have more information to support his judgment. He believed that there was also such a possibility, that is, the Japanese army believed that his actions were very strict and did not expose the existence of the epidemic prevention and water supply troops and the batch of biological and chemical weapons. Therefore, it is possible to directly send troops to Jinan.

Gao Jiu discussed with Wang Zhankui and others and decided to intercept the Japanese army first. If the interception operation fails, he will think of other ways. He can't watch the Japanese army heading to Jinan like this.

The information sent by Li San was very accurate. He provided the time for the Japanese convoy to leave the city. Gao Jiu and others were ambushing the roadside in advance based on the distance.

At 10:40 am, the Japanese convoy drove over from Qingdao, and the Japanese squadron leader in charge of escorting was sitting on the first truck. He saw a heavy truck coming towards him. When he was about to pass the Japanese convoy, the truck suddenly stopped. The truck was almost horizontal, blocking the way of the Japanese convoy.

The Japanese squadron leader realized the danger and hurriedly jumped out of the truck and called his soldiers out of the car to prepare for battle.

At this time, Gao Jiu and others suddenly launched an attack, with 82mm recoilless cannons, rocket launchers and a large number of machine guns, and the submachine guns quickly annihilated the Japanese escort troops.

However, the vehicles transporting epidemic prevention and water supply troops and supplies were not attacked. Gao Jiu was worried that if there were bacterial weapons inside, if the vessels containing bacteria were broken, it would cause large-scale pollution.

Therefore, they did not dare to use artillery to destroy it, and only allowed guerrillas to attack the Japanese officers and soldiers on the trucks.

In order to prevent the Japanese officers and soldiers on the truck from taking a desperate bet and forcibly launching biological and chemical weapons attacks, the guerrillas rushed up directly after knocking down the Japanese escort troops.

Because it was impossible to accurately see the situation of the Japanese army in the truck compartment, the guerrillas who launched the attack were attacked by the Japanese army in the truck compartment, and guerrillas were constantly shot and died.

Regardless of the casualties, the guerrillas rushed to the truck and wiped out the remaining Japanese troops on the truck.

The guerrillas jumped into the truck to find the batch of biological and chemical weapons, but were disappointed.

The truck was loaded with some ordinary supplies, no biochemical weapons were found, nor did the Japanese epidemic prevention and water supply troops were found.

Gao Jiu knew that he was deceived by the Japanese. This battle not only failed to annihilate the Japanese epidemic prevention and water supply troops and destroy the batch of biological and chemical weapons, but instead lost seven or eight guerrillas, which made Gao Jiu deeply blamed himself.

Seeing that Gao Jiu was in a bad mood, Wang Zhankui comforted him and said, "The Japanese are doing some conspiracies in the dark. We cannot get relevant information, so it is normal for them to fail. Master Jiu doesn't have to worry about this. I think that batch of biological and chemical weapons should not have been transported out of Qingdao yet, so I will find a way to intercept them."

Gao Jiu nodded silently and sent Li San another telegram, asking him to notify Hirata and provide more accurate information.

Gao Jiu and others were about to evacuate when he suddenly heard a gunshot. The gunshot sound was very weak, and it was from more than 200 meters away.

Gao Jiu instinctively twisted his body, and a bullet rubbed against his cheek and flew over.

He quickly hid next to the car and shouted, "Enemy's sniper."

Wang Zhankui and the guerrillas hurriedly hid in seclusion, looking for the location of the enemy sniper.

Gao Jiu directly locked the enemy sniper's position from the direction of the bullet flying.

The enemy snipers hid 240 meters away from here, behind a ridge on the roadside.

Gao Jiu shot him with one shot, and the man hurriedly dodged before Gao Jiu fired, and dodged the shot.

However, the guerrillas all discovered the position of the enemy sniper and immediately fired fire at it, suppressing the enemy sniper there.

Without waiting for Gao Jiu's orders, more than a dozen guerrillas began to encircle from both sides.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the enemy sniper crawled from the ground and took a few steps back, then turned around, and the cat stood up and wanted to escape.

Gao Jiu gave him the chance to escape, and he shot him and hit the fasting of the Japanese sniper.

The Japanese sniper was also very tenacious. After being injured, he was unable to move. He first lay on the ground, then endured the pain and turned over and raised his gun to fight back.

Ning Wen, who had already stared at him, shot him and killed him.

Gao Jiu guessed that the Japanese army was prepared this time, and the Japanese sniper should have come with the Japanese transport convoy, looking for opportunities to snipe himself.

He judged that since the Japanese sniper could track the Japanese convoy, he must have the corresponding means of transportation.

He looked towards Qingdao, and sure enough, he saw the front of a car exposed at the entrance of the village hundreds of meters away, and then disappeared. It was obvious that the Japanese in the car saw the situation here and began to reverse and escape.

Gao Jiu was not willing to let them go. He pointed to the entrance of the village and said, "There is a black car there. Chase them and don't let them run away."

The guerrillas turned over their horses and chased them in the direction of the village.

Ning Wen, Ning Wu and others rode fast horses and ran forward along the road.

Soon after, they saw the car in front of them.

In a short distance, the speed of the war horse is greater than that of the car, but the war horse relies on physical strength. At the beginning, the guerrillas got closer and closer to the car. Then, as the car accelerated, the distance gradually began to grow farther.

Ning Wen rode on the horse, aimed at the car with a sniper rifle, and fired five shots in a row. The bullet penetrated into the rear window of the car, and perhaps hit the Japanese driver. The car drove to the side of the road and stopped.

The guerrillas rushed over.

At this time, the car suddenly started to start again. It was probably because the Japanese who changed the driver and wanted to continue to escape.

The guerrillas also imitated Ning Wen and shot at the car, which finally stopped in the middle of the road.

Ning Wen, Ning Wu and others surrounded the car. In order to prevent the Japanese snipers inside, they fired violently at the car, believing that there would be no more living people inside, so they stepped forward to check.

Sure enough, there were three Japanese soldiers in the car, including a Japanese lieutenant, a Japanese soldier, each of whom had at least five bullets on his body and had already died.

First, he hit the wrong target, and then was attacked by Japanese snipers. Gao Jiu realized that he was really careless now.

He has gained an absolute advantage on the battlefield for so many years, and he is inevitably a little careless. This time, due to underestimating the enemy, he almost encountered the enemy's sniper. If Gao Jiu had not had extraordinary skills, he would have been sniped by the Japanese sniper.

However, the failure of this operation aroused Gao Jiu's interest. He wanted to see what kind of masters behind the Japanese could play tricks on him this time.

Gao Jiu was waiting for Li San's telegram while seriously thinking about the route for the Japanese army to transport biological and chemical weapons.

He believed that the Japanese army should not go directly to Jinan City along this highway to avoid being intercepted again. If the Japanese army no longer took this highway, what route would they choose?

Gao Jiu ordered Jia Liu to take out the map of Qingdao. After careful inspection, he found that there were several highways coming out of Qingdao City, and there were also forks in the middle to turn to other roads. There were at least six roads heading to Jinan. It was very difficult to intercept the road unless accurate information was obtained.
Chapter completed!