Although the hill was only a little more than a hundred meters high, the remnants of the squadron commanded by the pig unit did not have much firepower after losing the two machine guns. The terrain on the hillside could only allow the Japanese army to hold on to the top of the mountain. But this kind of terrain made Li Ziyuan's attack only start from the front, and the troops invested could not be too many at a time, which was quite unfavorable for the attacking side.

If Li Ziyuan had a cannon in his hand, he would cover it with a firepower on the unique terrain of this mountain. The Japanese army, which did not even have simple fortifications on the mountain, would be directly blown down. But in Li Ziyuan's hands, not to mention the cannon, he didn't even have a grenadier. In other words, he has almost no options other than a strong attack.

Li Ziyuan launched several attacks, but they all failed due to the limitations of the terrain. Listening to the louder and louder gunfire at the pass, Li Ziyuan looked at the Japanese advance team that was stubbornly held on this small hill, thinking that he had reinforcements and was quite arrogant, and finally stopped the frontal attack. In addition to increasing the number of casualties in this way, Li Ziyuan believes that it will have no effect.

Looking at the Japanese army on the mountain, Li Ziyuan also complained a little in his heart, the brother troops who came to reinforce. If only they were moving a little faster, they would be more combative. It can complete the outflanking in place before the Japanese army tears through the breakthrough. It's not so passive now.

However, complaining in my heart is complaining. But Li Ziyuan also knew that for a new army that outflanked one by one and the kinetic energy ran away, it was a kind of force to ask so much. They can be the first troops to rush to reinforcements, I am afraid, in addition to being familiar with the terrain. There was also a kind of heavenly favor that allowed them to move this way without encountering the Japanese army.

If you encounter the Japanese army in the middle of the movement, even if it is the strength of a squadron, I am afraid that this new army-based force can withstand it. It is estimated that a single charge will be able to break up this force. Li Ziyuan was a little puzzled, even if the leaders of their sub-district wanted to train their troops, they could not mobilize such troops to participate in this kind of battle at this time.

It's just that Li Ziyuan doesn't know that the focus of this battle is not on this battlefield, but on whether they can stop it, and the surrounding reinforcements are also rushing here at full speed. The Japanese army here has a main battalion, which is enough to use. But if you can't stop the Japanese reinforcements around you before the end of this side, then everything will be in vain.

As a division commander of a generation of famous commanders, how can he not see this situation? In order to be able to rescue the Japanese reinforcements before they arrived. The division headquarters mobilized all the troops that could be mobilized in the surrounding area, and as long as the troops that could be caught, whether it was the local armed forces to which the division belonged, or the main force, they all went up to block the reinforcements.

The main force with strong combat effectiveness, as long as it can arrive, is now in the process of blocking. The only thing that the surrounding troops can use is this local independent battalion that operates in the vicinity to cover the civilian population for counter-sweeping. Anyway, the strength and strength of the Japanese army in front of Li Ziyuan were not strong, and this battle was mainly based on rescuing the non-combatants covered by Li Ziyuan.

In a hurry, the leaders of the military sub-divisions to which this independent battalion belonged arrested the strong men of this newly organized independent battalion, which had no task in this battle. They were sent out to pick up the non-combatants. The leaders of the military divisions to which they belonged did not think of using this unit to participate in the war at all.

It's just that at the moment, this independent battalion has rushed to a critical node at a critical moment. In addition, when he encountered Li Ziyuan, who did not play cards according to common sense, he would have retreated at this time if he had replaced others. Only he is in this situation, still thinking about the guy who pulls his teeth.

In desperation, this independent battalion can only bite the bullet, and it is not surprising that this situation has occurred. Li Ziyuan complained about the leaders of their military division, but he was a little wrong. It's just complaining, but you have to find a way to solve the problem, and it's useless to just complain here.

Li Ziyuan knew that under the constraints of this terrain, the little troops in his hands at the moment, even if they attacked it, they would probably suffer casualties and embers. After stopping the attack, Li Ziyuan carried the telescope and climbed a higher mountain nearby, and after raising the telescope to carefully observe this small hill, he had a little bit of a count in his heart.

After going down the mountain quickly, Li Ziyuan called He Sanliang over. Pointing to the back of the mountain, he said: "Lao He, you pick ten of our soldiers, and we will bring as many Japanese-style grenades as we have in our hands." I launched a feint to contain the Japanese army in the front, and you took these ten men around the cliff behind the mountain. After pulling the grenade on fire, after a pause of three seconds, it was all given to Lao Tzu. ”

"At a height of more than ten meters, even a girl threw a grenade on it. and put the light machine gun in our hands on the side of the rain crack ditch on the flank, and suppressed the fire on the mountain for Lao Tzu. If the Japanese troops on the mountain were launching a counter-charge, they would stop Lao Tzu from beating him. Tell the machine gunner not to be reluctant to let go of the bullets, Lao Tzu smashed the pot and sold iron today. ”

He Sanliang, who received the order, did not hesitate after listening to the sound of artillery on the other side of the pass. Gather all the grenades together and move behind the mountain with ten fighters. Compared to before the reinforcements arrived, Li Ziyuan's troops had enough grenades at the moment.

Because reinforcements had arrived, there was no need for him to prepare for the worst. When he was about to descend the mountain, he asked Ma Yongcheng to collect all the grenades that were issued to those non-combatants and left for use at the most critical time. In addition to replenishing dozens of reinforcements, he also left dozens of himself. At this time, the number of grenades in his hand was quite sufficient.

Looking at He Sanliang's back, Li Ziyuan looked at the Japanese soldiers who were still resisting on the mountain, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help showing a sneer: "If Lao Tzu doesn't blow you all up into dead pigs today, Lao Tzu will not be surnamed Li in the future, and he will have the same surname as your group of pigs, and he will be fucking renamed Pig Stock." ”

However, although there is a certain way, there are some things that Li Ziyuan should do or have to do. He organized his troops into squads and adopted the tactics of taking turns to assault. Where they encountered Japanese fire, they used the terrain to fight back on the spot. Little by little, the Japanese troops on the mountain were squeezed to the top of the mountain.

In order to prevent the assault troops on the mountain from once again re-enacting the previous retreat when they encountered a Japanese counterattack, Li Ziyuan stood at the foot of the mountain to supervise the battle with a fast and slow machine. Although Li Ziyuan didn't say anything, just one stop there made the fighters on the mountain feel the pressure doubled. No matter how fierce the Japanese troops on the hill were, no one dared to retreat, whether new or veterans.

During the period when He Sanliang was moving towards the back of the mountain, Li Ziyuan used new tactics to firmly plant a few nails under the noses of the Japanese soldiers on the mountain, and successfully attracted the attention of the Japanese soldiers on the mountain. There was a cliff behind him, and the front naturally became the only line of attack. For the pig lieutenant on the mountain, the nail planted by Li Ziyuan is the most critical.

When the first nail was planted, Lieutenant Pig felt bad. He even organized more than a dozen people, wanting to take advantage of the fact that the attacking troops were not firmly on the ground, and drive them back to the bottom of the mountain in one go. However, the light machine gun deployed by Li Ziyuan on the flank made Lieutenant Zhu Gu's repeated counterattacks fruitless, and he could only watch the Eighth Route Army stand firm under his nose.

And just when the gaze of the lieutenant of the pig stock was attracted by the Eighth Route Army, which was slowly advancing upwards after gaining a foothold. At this time, He Sanliang, who had already moved to the back of the mountain, was in the best position, and quickly arrived at the bottom of the cliff with ten soldiers.

After pulling the grenade out and pulling it out of the safe, he hit the stone hard and paused for a few seconds before dropping the grenade onto the cliff. Although throwing a grenade from the bottom up is not too easy. But the cliff is only more than ten meters high, and it is difficult to stop the eight roads that have worked hard in this regard.

He Sanliang divided the ten fighters into two groups, which alternately threw grenades. While one group threw a grenade, the other pulled out the safety bolt and waited for a pause. To ensure that grenades that fall on the top of the hill are not interrupted by throwing gaps.

When dozens of grenades exploded on the cliff, almost all of the rifle fire on the mountain was dumbfounded. As early as when the first grenade exploded, he had already ignored the rifles that were still firing on the mountain, and rushed halfway up the mountain to join Li Ziyuan, who had become a nail unit in front.

Immediately seized the opportunity of the interruption of the Japanese firepower, regardless of how many Japanese soldiers were killed and injured by the grenade explosion this time, and rushed directly to the top of the mountain with the troops in one go. Anyway, his real purpose was not to expect how many kills and injuries these grenades could kill. As long as he could interrupt the fire of the Japanese troops on the mountain, it would be enough for him.

However, Li Ziyuan obviously underestimated the lethality of dozens of grenades, and the concentrated explosion was lethal to such a small mountain. The power of the explosion of dozens of grenades is not comparable to that of artillery shells for this small mountaintop, but for such a small hill with almost no shelter, the lethality is enough.

When Li Ziyuan rushed to the top of the mountain, there was no one on the mountain who could stand up. In addition to a few wounded Japanese soldiers, there were scattered Japanese corpses that had been bombed everywhere. Although the Japanese army's standard grenade is somewhat unreliable because of the use of impact fuses, its lethality is far greater than that of the self-made grenades made by the base areas, which are even more unreliable.

Faced with some unexpected endings, Li Ziyuan was not polite, and directly gave a few shots to the wounded who were still trying to struggle, and then ordered the troops around him to quickly clean up the battlefield. In fact, there is nothing to clean, that is, to take away all the weapons and ammunition on the Japanese soldiers, and at the same time to give every Japanese soldier who is still angry to replenish the supply.

In fact, grenades mainly rely on fragments and explosive shock waves to kill and injure, and the Japanese soldiers who were killed on the spot on the mountain at this time are not too few. After all, dozens of grenades exploded in such a large place, and they were Japanese standard grenades that were far more powerful than home-made grenades, and their lethality was okay.

But except for those who were killed on the spot when the grenade hit the core area, and the two shockwaves that were exploded, from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the cliff fell to their deaths. In the end, it was the wounded who were injured by the explosion, accounting for a large proportion. Li Ziyuan wants to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, which means that more than 20 seriously wounded Japanese soldiers must be eliminated at once.

This practice is absolutely not allowed for the Eighth Route Army, which has strict prisoner discipline. Such a massacre of the wounded will not be allowed in any kind of troops. Many soldiers received this kind of education from the moment they joined the army. Li Ziyuan's approach, except for He Sanliang who understood his intentions, almost no one supported him.