Yamazaki Jihei's tactics are actually not wrong, the Japanese army is good at flowering in the middle, and then let the reinforcements from all sides support, forming a counter-encirclement refueling tactic, which is reflected in many classic battles of the Japanese army.

It's just that Yamazaki Jihei did it particularly boldly this time, with only 500 troops of the Yamazaki Brigade going deep alone, looking for the main force of the Eighth Route Army, and then using himself as a bait to induce the Eighth Route Army to besiege him, and then call for support to form a counter-encirclement of the main force of the Eighth Route Army, and finally completely annihilate the main force of the Eighth Route Army.

It can be said that Yamazaki Jihei's wishful thinking is very good, although there has been a not good episode like the commando and the guard battalion, but in Yamazaki Jihei's opinion, the final result will not change.

When Yamazaki's brigade had built all the defensive positions in the middle of Lijiapo, Yamazaki Jihei held his katana and sat on an exposed bluestone against the wind.

Looking at the large open area in front of him and the only avenue that could walk up to Lijiapo, the corners of Yamazaki Jihei's mouth drew a cold arc.

Jihei Yamazaki is full of confidence. Although there were only more than 300 people left in his Yamazaki brigade, as long as there were such fortifications and a sufficient amount of artillery and ammunition, no matter how many people rushed up at one time from the backwardly equipped Eighth Route Main Force, only he Yamazaki Jihei waved his butcher's knife in the end.

Not only that, but after Yamazaki Jihei built the fortifications, he directly telegraphed to the commander of the Japanese First Army in Jin, Yoshio Shinozuka, explaining his tactics of flowering in the middle, and the situation that the main force of the surrounding Eighth Route Army had besieged the troops and regiments he led, and at the same time asked the Japanese headquarters for help.

However, after Shinozuka Yoshio learned of the situation, instead of blaming the Yamazaki Brigade for being alone, he vigorously praised Yamazaki Jihei's bravery and affirmed Yamazaki Jihei's middle flowering tactics this time.

Yoshio Shinozuka immediately ordered the 36th Division stationed in Lu'an, the 16th Brigade stationed in Fenyang, the 9th Brigade stationed in Taiyuan, and the 4th Brigade stationed in Yangquan to march day and night towards Lijiapo to respond to the Yamazaki Brigade's counter-encirclement and annihilation of the main force of the Eighth Route Army.

The battle of Lijiapo has not yet begun, and the entire northwest of Jin has been turbulent, and when the battle of Lijiapo officially began, a violent storm has completely descended.

This little-known hillside has now been marked with red dots, magnified and multiplied, and presented on the military combat map of all forces, and the battle of Lijiapo is destined to be written into the annals of history, that is, it may not be impossible to say that the annals of Biao Bin are not impossible.

At the beginning of the battle, after looking at the terrain of Lijiapo's position, Commander Cheng made up his mind to attack.

Commander Cheng knew that the Yamazaki Brigade had lost a lot of people in the hands of the guard battalion, and the Japanese army retreated in a hurry, but Commander Cheng only glanced at it and found hundreds of Japanese corpses lying all over the ground.

According to the intelligence regiment commander, the Yamazaki Brigade was a temporary brigade brought together from the front line of the Japanese army, so there was a shortage in the establishment, and it was not full, almost only 500 troops, so after the battle damage from the confrontation with the guard battalion, this Yamazaki Brigade probably only had more than 300 troops left, which was only the number of a reinforced squadron of the Japanese army.

Commander Cheng didn't take this Yamazaki brigade seriously, and in his opinion, the combat effectiveness of the improvised Japanese army was definitely not strong.

Otherwise, a five-hundred-man Yamazaki brigade would have fought with a guard battalion of two or three hundred people, and would not have left behind more than a hundred corpses and fled in a hurry.

…… The battle of Lijiapo was a climax at the beginning, don't look at the high morale of the Eighth Route Army, and the boss even threatened to "kill the Yamazaki Brigade", but the fact is that the head of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army was under tremendous pressure, and the three brigades of the Japanese army were all approaching the Lijiapo position, day and night.

The Yamazaki Brigade is a bait dropped by the Japanese army at this moment, a bait that angers the big fish of the Eighth Route Army.

But if the big fish wants to eat this bait, there is a risk of being caught at any time.

If the 386th Brigade does not attack the Yamazaki Brigade for a long time, then once the Japanese reinforcements respond to the Yamazaki Brigade to form a counter-encirclement, the entire 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army is in danger of being annihilated.

This is exactly what Yamazaki Jihei thought of, even if the Eighth Route Army did not eat his bait in the end and led the troops to evacuate, then after this battle, it would be a huge blow to the overall prestige of the Eighth Route Army.

There is not much time left for the Eighth Route Army, and it is precisely because of the thinking of time that Brigade Commander Chen of the 386th Brigade did not think about it, and directly sent the 772nd Regiment, the main regiment of his brigade.

Brigade Commander Chen's order to Commander Cheng of the 772nd Regiment is very clear: No matter how you fight, Lao Tzu must give me eight hours to destroy this Yamazaki brigade.

Eight hours, this is already the most time that the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army can buy for the 772nd Regiment to send reinforcements everywhere.

So at the beginning of the battle, Regiment Commander Cheng did not hesitate or had no choice, and directly issued an order to the whole regiment to charge to the death:

Take Li Jiapo at all costs and annihilate the Yamazaki brigade.

The brutal battle of Lijiapo has finally begun......

But from the very beginning, the battle did not seem to be satisfactory.

Since the road to Lijiapo is the only one, although the 772nd Regiment of the 386th Brigade, the main force of the 772 Brigade, is a reinforced regiment with more than 2,000 troops, it has a regular battle sequence registered with the Guo Army.

However, the strength of the whole regiment could not be deployed at all, and there was only one way to charge, and a pioneer company of the 772nd regiment had just rushed to Lijiapo, and was suppressed by the crazy machine gun fire of the Yamazaki brigade, plus the single point of the sniper, it was almost a few blinks of an eye, and there were few soldiers left in a company, and even the company commander died on the way to lead the charge.

The follow-up assault troops continued to press, but the firepower of the Yamazaki Brigade was like an endless tongue of fire, with the only narrow road that could go up to Lijiapo as the only firepower coverage point, allowing the soldiers of the 772nd Regiment to follow one after another, and they were also like moths to the fire and brought about their own destruction.

The sudden heavy casualties made Commander Cheng's eyes split, his heart was like a knife, and he had no choice but to give the order to temporarily retreat.

In this way, the Yamazaki brigade easily withstood the first wave of attack of the 772nd regiment.

In the next two hours, the heroic and fearless 772nd Regiment launched three fierce attacks in a row, but unfortunately all of them ended in failure under the heavy fire of the Yamazaki Brigade.

On the other hand, the Yamazaki Brigade only lost some ammunition, and the casualties were almost negligible.

Just want to run out of ammunition for the Yamazaki brigade through a war of attrition?

Wishful thinking, Jihei Yamazaki brought several times as much ammunition this time, which was enough for his Yamazaki brigade to support two days and fight several large-scale battles.

If it is filled with human lives, all the soldiers of the 772nd Regiment will die, and the ammunition of the Yamazaki Brigade will not be lost.

Commander Cheng's heart was finally a little flustered at this time, he didn't expect that this Yamazaki brigade was such a difficult bone to gnaw.

But why did the Yamazaki Brigade, which was so difficult to bite, in the hands of the guard battalion and the commando team, actually planted a big heel and killed more than 100 people in direct battle?

Head Cheng couldn't understand the reason, but under the comparison between the two, he couldn't help but feel a little depressed.

Even if he Li Yunlong is powerful, a team under his command is so amazing.

Commander Cheng, who was quite unconvinced in his heart, once again ordered the whole regiment to launch a charge against the death order of the headquarters to eliminate the Yamazaki brigade......