The two sides hit it off and immediately began to prepare for the target. Although the reconnaissance company's reconnaissance capabilities are far above the Wufeng Army, Lin Hu is a native native who has lived around Wufeng for almost 30 years and is familiar with everything around him. In addition to the Lin family's network, it is not only very good at Wufeng, Changhua, Nantou, Taichung and other places, but the preliminary investigation and selection work was still handed over to Wufeng Army.

Lin Hu lived up to his expectations, and soon selected some targets from the surrounding area. Changhua County, Taichung, and even Yunlin County and Chiayi County, all of which have more or less garrisons and police branches, which are worthy of attack. However, the largest unit is just a small army, and some of them are only second-line troops and police departments. Looking at the information collected by the Lin family, Liu Ye did not comment. After Lin Hu finished speaking, he asked curiously: "Why is there no Nantou!"

Lin Long didn't understand why, and he knew that Nantou was not far away, even closer than Changhua. Lin Hu was a little hesitant when he turned to look at Lin Hu. However, under Liu Ye's attention and under Lin Long's urging, he still explained the reason. It was actually very simple. The reason why he didn't choose Nantou was because there were too many troops in Nantou, which was a tough bone.

Nantou is the only inland county in Taiwan, and it is completely unavailable to the sea. The highest peak of Taiwan, Yushan, Sun Moon Lake, the source of the longest river Zhuoshui River and Taiwan's geographical center are all located in Nantou County. After the Luo Fuxing Uprising, due to its huge momentum, it lasted for two years, posed a huge threat to Japan's rule. The Japanese Taiwanese garrison attached great importance to it. Not only did a large number of personnel sending people to the surrounding counties to prevent Luo Fuxing from traversing, but also in the most likely place of Luo Fuxing, Nantou County, where Yushan is located, he invested heavily and a corps were drawn to be responsible for the battle in the central region.

Now a lot of troops are scattered out and searched in the Central Mountains of Taiwan. However, in Nantou County, a brigade of regular troops was stationed, responsible for contacting the surrounding areas, guarding the company's arsenal, and providing support to other troops. The reason why Lin Hu did not choose Nantou was because of this. Although with the help of the Northwest Army, the strength of the Wufeng Army made great progress every day. Regular military training increased their strength, but the shadows of the past still existed.

A brigade of the Japanese army was a field brigade with a total of 1,100 people. For the former Wufeng Army, when they were very ambitious at the beginning of the uprising, they encountered not a brigade of Japanese troops, but a squadron with 180 people. The Wufeng Army had more than 300 people at that time, and the Wufeng Army was still defeated. Facing the Japanese offensive, if one charge continued, more than 100 people were killed and injured. Then, there was no more. 200 people were left and they ran away.

Now, I am not facing a squadron, but a brigade, a brigade with a standard of 1100, which is definitely a tough problem. Lin Hu doesn't think that just after training, the total number of people is only 700 people, and he can deal with this.

After listening to Lin Hu's story, Liu Ye's eyes lit up. There was not many teams, and they had not reached a gang, but they could not deal with them. For them, they were the best stepping stone and the foundation for establishing their own strength.

In Taiwan, because Luo Fuxing's uprising was suppressed and a large number of people were massacred, the uprising trend fell into a trough. The long struggle, countless blood flowed too much and it was too painful. Without any support, the people's spontaneous command was getting lower and lower, but the expectations for their homeland were inextricably unsuccessful. This was an opportunity.

Liu Ye chose Nantou County without thinking, which shocked Lin Hu and repeatedly blocked him. However, Liu Ye had made up his mind and briefly described the strength gap between the two sides, especially technical equipment, soldier quality, etc. Although the number of reconnaissance companies is only one-third of that of a brigade, if you really have to encounter it on the battlefield, you can kill half of the opponent by head-on battle. If you have more means or sneak attacks, there is almost no problem with victory.

Lin Hu recognized the strength of the Northwest Army and felt that the number of Northwest Army was too small. If the Northwest Army had more than 1,000 people and Wufeng Army, he would choose here without hesitation. Now the Northwest Army has only about 300 people, and the Wufeng Army here has not been fully trained. According to the Northwest Army, the Northwest Army will also take 3 months to train the Northwest Army. Perhaps the Wufeng Army will not be worse than the New Army, but it is always necessary to go to the battlefield for only 10 days. This is more or less irresponsible to the soldiers.

Lin Hu disagreed. Liu Ye had command power, but could not force it. He had to explain it little by little, almost exposing the strength of the reconnaissance company. He even told the strength of the special forces in detail, and told the examples of real battles. These combined became the last straw that overwhelmed the camel. In Taiwan, the Japanese were almost like demons. Every Japanese soldier had bloody hands. Having the opportunity to deal with them was the choice of every Taiwanese. Since the Northwest Army was so powerful, let the heads of 1,100 Japanese people pay tribute to the heroic spirits of the once Taiwanese people.

After the overall consensus was made, the action began. Whether the battle was victorious, intelligence was the leader, and only by knowing oneself and the enemy could win. The northwest always attached importance to intelligence collection. Even Liu Ye, the company commander at the bottom, knew that he was not only the company commander of the reconnaissance company, but also had three special forces under his command. Although he had no jurisdiction, he had battlefield command.

In the following days, the elites of the special forces and reconnaissance companies began to frequently enter Nantou County to investigate the basic information of the defenders. In this era, the Japanese army's idea of ​​establishing the army was still in the level of the last century, adhering to personnel and hand-to-hand combat. These two points were not much improved even in later generations. In this case, when firepower was topped up, and when a postmodern army like special forces was established, the gap was all-round.

In just five days, the entire Nantou County was investigated by special forces and reconnaissance companies. The loopholes everywhere were like sieves. The name of the Japanese brigade stationed in Nantou County was Sakamoto's brigade. His brigade was Sakamoto Soichiro, the third brigade belonging to the 532nd Regiment of the First Division of the Taiwan Army of Japan. The entire brigade has about 1,000 people, and some second-line troops, with a small number of people, about 300 people. They are responsible for the city defense and defense of Nantou. A police branch office with more than 700 police officers under its jurisdiction, which is the largest among all police branch offices. In addition to a small number of armed expatriates and company armed personnel, there are almost 2,800 armed personnel in the entire Nantou County.

Of course, the most important and the strongest one is Sakamoto's brigade. He is considered an old brigade and was once affiliated with the 6th Division. Later, in 1895, the Taiwan Army was established and was transferred to the Taiwan Army. Based on several brigades, the current Taiwan Army was established, with a relatively long history.

The investigators not only investigated the military forces of Nantou County, but also drew a map of Nantou. In the map, several key locations and buildings in Nantou were marked in detail by the investigators on the map. The map will be confirmed repeatedly and handed over to every commander. The entire military operation against Nantou County will be based on this military map, so it is very critical. At least a few waves of people were sent to carefully check and finally the case was finalized.

During the investigation, the top leaders of Wufeng Army watched with their own eyes the strength of the Northwest Army almost entered the Japanese controlled area Yu Wuwu. They were worried that the Northwest would be arrogant. It turned out that the other party was proud, but they were proud to believe in their own strength very much, rather than blindly arrogant. Including the arsenal, military camp, canteen, staff, headquarters, etc., important facilities were marked one by one, but did not arouse the alert of the Japanese army. They were still in Nantou County in a daze, and they were not sure that a bloodthirsty monster had already stared at them.

The Japanese army in Nantou County did not do enough, perhaps because they were in the relationship between bandit suppression, or because the strength of Luo Fuxing and Wufeng Army was too weak before, the Japanese did not encounter any strong resistance at all. At most, they were a little troublesome to search for them. The dense mountains in the middle were like gophers, and they could not find them at all.

It is precisely because Sakamoto's brigade did not build a close position in Nantou Prefecture. It just found a row of warehouses in the county and stationed next to it. There were police and second-line troops defending the outside. They just needed to guard the arsenal well. They spent most of their time resting and their defensive mentality was almost the lowest.

For the Northwest Army, this is the best opportunity. The other party is not on defense at all. As long as the opponent's posts are cleared, sneak attacks and intensive fire attacks, what awaits them will be a feast. You must understand the situation of the arsenal and get the arms in the arsenal under the premise of annihilation of a large-scale force of the opponent. This is the arsenal that supports a corps. Although there are not many guns, the inconvenient artillery, artillery shells, bullets and logistics supplies that are inconvenient to carry are at least fifty or sixty tons. After obtaining these, most of the problems of arms can be solved in the early stage.

As for the future, all the Northwest soldiers were very clear that with the Northwest as a backing, Taiwan will not lack weapons in the future. What they lack is now. As long as a solid base is built, it is best to transform a port. The Northwest's strong industrial production capacity and maritime delivery capabilities can put a large number of troops and arms into Taiwan in minutes.

At present, several ports in Taiwan, Keelung, Kaohsiung and Taipei, finally chose Kaohsiung, but that was the long-term goal, and it was at least a few months later. For the northwest, it would be better to eat up the current one first. The first thing to bear is Nantou County, a place where a large group of Japanese troops is stationed. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!