If Gangcun realizes that Zhao Zhiguo and his arsenal cannot be moved away, the arsenal will lose interest in the Japanese army.

An arsenal that cannot be moved is an immovable target, and they can be attacked whether on the ground or in the air.

"Isn't it over? The arsenal can't be moved. Gangcun doesn't have to worry about it. It won't make the arsenal the first target of attack!" Yao Pengju said.

What they were most worried about was that the Japanese cavalry would not attack the arsenal as the first target, but instead attack other places! This would disrupt all their deployments.

"There are no trucks, we still have ox carts and donkey carts!" Zhao Zhiguo said.

The power of the people is endless. A nation that was able to build the Great Wall and Afang Palace thousands of years ago cannot move an arsenal?

"Commander, what should I do if Japanese aircraft attack?"

After mobilizing the people, the Japanese army looked at the mighty oxcart team and would definitely shoot.

"Tell Tian Kezhi to place our air defense team near the highway. As long as Japanese reconnaissance planes are found, regardless of whether they hit or miss, they will be driven away immediately!" Zhao Zhiguo said.

The fake arsenal is the best bait. Zhao Zhiguo must not let Gangcun's attention be diverted to other places.

Now that this plan has begun, before the Japanese cavalry and armored forces are attracted, all plans must revolve around the fake arsenal.

"Commander, drive away the Japs' planes so they can't see us moving the arsenal."

"The little devils are like dog-skin plasters. The less you let them see anything, the more they want to see it. The purpose of patrolling with anti-aircraft weapons is just to prevent the Japanese troops from flying at low altitudes!" Zhao Zhiguo said.

Japanese aircraft flew at low altitudes, and the machine guns on the aircraft were too intimidating.

The goal of the air defense forces was to keep Japanese aircraft in higher airspace.

After Tian Kezhi received the news, he immediately ordered his soldiers to collect ox carts and donkey carts from nearby villages, pile the ox carts and donkey carts with firewood, and then cover them with canvas.

Twenty or thirty oxcarts and donkey carts gathered together and headed west. A kid could tell what Zhao Zhiguo was doing just by thinking about it with his buttocks.

While keeping an eye on the situation at Zhao Zhiguo's arsenal, the Japanese army asked ground troops to advance toward Pingcheng and Jinyang.

For Gangcun, he wants the arsenal, he also wants Pingcheng and Jinyang City! These are all mine!

The troops retreating from the front quickly formed a second line of defense outside Pingcheng, which was also Pingcheng's last line of defense.

If the Japanese army breaks through this line of defense, they will face the positions outside Pingcheng!

There were only a few dozen soldiers guarding the positions outside Pingcheng. The guard regiment inside the city was not deployed at the positions outside the city, nor did they go up to the city wall for defense.

In other words, if the Japanese army breaks through the defense line, they can rush into Pingcheng City at any time.

The guard regiment was used by Zhao Zhiguo to defend against Japanese cavalry, so Zhao Zhiguo only assembled the guard regiment and did not make any arrangements for the guard regiment.

In fact, Zhao Zhiguo could have ordered other troops to return to Pingcheng for defense, which would only leave each regiment without a reserve team.

But Zhao Zhiguo preferred to let each unit have its own reserve team, because it was better to fight the battle outside Pingcheng than in Pingcheng.

Each unit has sufficient reserves and will have enough confidence to launch a counterattack.

The defense of Jinyang City is different. There are sufficient troops near Jinyang City, but Gangcun uses fewer troops in the direction of Jinyang City than Pingcheng.

Therefore, as long as the defense in the Jinyang area does not make a major mistake in command or the troops guarding the bridge withdraw without firing a shot, Jinyang City will not have much problems.

After Gangcun learned that Zhao Zhiguo's troops had retreated early in the morning, he was a little surprised and sighed: "The intelligence system of this team of farmers is actually stronger than our intelligence capabilities."

The Little Devil's cavalry and armored troops were dispatched at night, and Zhao Zhiguo's troops withdrew in the middle of the night. This shows that the Eighth Route Army's intelligence department was able to obtain the movements of their troops in a timely manner.

The Japanese army, on the other hand, used a large number of scouts to detect the situation of Zhao Zhiguo's troops. As a result, very few of their scouts came back.

The puppet army's reconnaissance personnel brought them very little information, and in the end the Japanese army was forced to conduct aerial reconnaissance.

The Japanese military's aerial reconnaissance capabilities can only be seen on the surface.

The intelligence war between the two sides has created serious inequality.

Fortunately, the Japanese army was powerful and was able to regain 10% in military operations.

However, the advancement ability of the Japanese infantry unit has made Gangcun begin to doubt his life. Is the unit he leads still the invincible imperial army?

It seems that Zhao Zhiguo is not worried about the Japanese infantry attack at all. This is also true, because the Japanese army found that every time they fired artillery strikes, they did not cause substantial damage to the Chinese army, especially the firepower points they considered very threatening. Every artillery fire

After the strike is over, the firepower points on the position will change positions.

Zhao Zhiguo's troops were so familiar with the Japanese army's combat style that they could almost calculate what the Japanese army was going to do at every step.

"Zhao Zhiguo is afraid of our cavalry and armored troops!" Gangcun also understood why Zhao Zhiguo suddenly retreated.

"Your Excellency, Commander, the troops attacking from Jinyang direction have not made any progress and cannot even advance further."

Zhao Zhiguo's troops retreated in the direction of Pingcheng, but the Japanese troops in the Jinyang direction were almost unable to advance.

Not only were the Chinese troops desperately defending in front of them, but one or two small groups of troops appeared on their flanks and rear to sneak attack them.

Although these sneak attack troops did not cause them huge losses, the Japanese army had to use their troops to defend themselves.

"It seems we have to involve the cavalry and armored forces in frontal combat as soon as possible!"

Gangcun believed that only cavalry and armored units could break the balance on the battlefield, and Zhao Zhiguo's arsenal would not be able to escape for a while anyway.

"Reporting to your Excellency, Commander, the latest intelligence from the reconnaissance plane is that a large number of ox carts were found near Zhao Zhiguo's arsenal."

Just when Gangcun made up his mind to use cavalry and armored troops to attack Zhao Zhiguo's defense forces, a new situation occurred at Zhao Zhiguo's arsenal.

"Ox carts? Zhao Zhiguo is moving the arsenal again?" Gangcun frowned, "Why don't our reconnaissance planes destroy these ox carts?"

"Zhao Zhiguo's air defense troops pulled onto the road and opened fire on our reconnaissance plane. Our reconnaissance plane was almost hit."

"It seems that Zhao Zhiguo has made up his mind to transfer their arsenal. Commander, if we don't take action, we may not have a chance." said the Japanese Chief of Staff.
Chapter completed!