Perhaps learning the lessons of the past, the Japanese army also sent some cavalry and armored vehicles to escort them when they were sending supplies forward. I'd rather be slower, but I definitely don't give Li Ziyuan a chance to sneak attack. Li Ziyuan looked for fighters several times, but he had to give up because of the heavy security of the surrounding Japanese puppet army and the proximity to the strongholds of Pingchuan and Qiaokou.

The current situation shows that the Japanese army is preparing to carry out an unprecedented sweep in the mountainous areas east of Hubei. These large quantities of ammunition transported to the eastern mountains, as well as military field food, also showed that the Japanese army did not abandon the original sweeping plan because of previous losses.

Li Ziyuan, who was hiding in the periphery of Pingchuan, watched a Japanese mortar squadron, under the protection of two light tanks and an infantry squadron, arrive in Pingchuan Town from Changzhi. But because the Japanese army was heavily guarded, he could never find a fighter and had no choice. If you can defeat this mortar squadron, I am afraid that the pressure on your follow-up operations will be much less.

After two days of standby and failing to find the fighter, Li Ziyuan could only lead his troops out day and night, interspersing in the opposite direction to Hubei County. They tried to take advantage of the fact that a large number of Japanese troops were concentrated in the mountainous areas east of Hubei, looking for fighters to find opportunities to fight along the highway from Hubei to Changzhi, or around Hubei County.

However, it was not until the Japanese troops stationed in various strongholds in the eastern part of Hubei officially began to sweep into the eastern mountainous areas that Li Ziyuan could not finally find an opportunity. On the fourth day of Li Ziyuan's departure from the mountain, the Japanese puppet army, whose strategic intentions had been fully exposed, simply lifted all their camouflage and adopted the method of advancing in parallel by three roads to launch a large-scale sweep in the mountainous area east of Hubei.

The Japanese army began to sweep and waited in concealment around Hubei County, but because of the tight protection of the Japanese army, they could not find the fighters, and at the same time knew that they could not delay Li Ziyuan. Immediately led the team back to the Baijin Railway line north of Pingchuan Town, quickly entered a state of concealment, and finally placed the target of the Baijin Railway Line and Pingchuan Town.

It's just that the Japanese army's sweep of the eastern mountainous area of Hubei this time has learned from the experience of previous sweeping operations. Not only did the sweep take place, but also did not relax the vigilance in the rear. In addition to interrupting all the cargo transportation of the Baijin Railway, it did not give the Eighth Route Army a chance to destroy. It also significantly strengthened the vigilance of the rear area of the sweep, the triangle from Pingchuan to Qiaokou and Luoma.

Li Ziyuan waited for two days along the Baijin Railway and did not catch a train. I could only helplessly turn my gaze back to Pingchuan. It is mainly the first line of Hubei to Pingchuan Highway, as well as the triangle from Pingchuan to Luoma and Qiaokou. Li Ziyuan believed that as the Japanese army swept eastward, he would still find fighters behind them.

With the official start of the Japanese army's sweep of the mountainous areas in the eastern part of Hubei, even if the grain can be grabbed on the spot, the ammunition still has to be delivered. Even the ammunition carried by the Japanese infantry itself can sustain the operation for a period of time. But the forage needed by the pack horses should also be returned, and these pack horses can't just eat weeds to maintain their strength.

On the day that Li Ziyuan led the team back to the periphery of Pingchuan, a convoy of more than 10 military trucks also set off from Changzhi and was heading towards Pingchuan. This convoy consisted of more than a dozen trucks, and the front and rear trucks were loaded with loaded Japanese soldiers. The rest of the trucks were covered with canvas, and outsiders didn't even know what they were inside.

After the convoy set off from Changzhi, it did not enter Hubei County, but drove directly to Pingchuan. Li Ziyuan, who was on the outskirts of Pingchuan, had a headache because of the lack of fighters, after receiving a report from the observation post. Hurriedly rushed to a small high ground on the side of the road, raised his binoculars to look at the increasingly clear convoy.

Putting down the telescope in his hand, Li Ziyuan immediately told Liu Lianming to bury all the mines he carried. Especially those oversized mines modified by the rolling mines made by the old Jin Dynasty issued by the superiors in order to carry out a sabotage war against the Baijin Railway. When these mines first crossed the ladder, they almost exhausted the troops carrying these dozens of kilograms.

This thing was specially developed by the Taiyuan Arsenal before the war according to the topography of Shanxi. Move this rolling thunder to the mountain, and when the enemy attackes, kick the thunder down the hill with your feet, and kill and injure the enemy with explosive fragments. This kind of rolling thunder is large in body and has a large charge. In defensive warfare, the power is still very great.

The only downside is that it's too bulky when moving in the mountains. To put it bluntly, that is, because it is too big, it is too difficult to fight with the march. If it's a stationary defensive battle, this thing is still very useful. But when it comes to mobile defense, this thing is a liability.

When the Eighth Route Army was advancing eastward, it picked up a lot of these things on the battlefield behind enemy lines in Shanxi. It's just that after a few years of consumption, there is not much left. The most important thing is the lack of explosives in the eight roads, most of these inconvenient rolling mines are disassembled, and the explosives inside are taken out and used in other aspects.

Li Ziyuan went to the military sub-district for a meeting, and when he saw these big guys that no one wanted to bring, he asked for them from the logistics minister of the sub-division. But in all the previous battles, because this kind of guy was too bulky, Li Ziyuan could only put it away first.

This time, he jumped out of the line to look for fighters, Li Ziyuan didn't know what kind of wind he had, and brought these big guys out of the mountain. In order to get these bulky guys across the ladder, they almost didn't break the waists of Liu Lianming and his direct platoon soldiers. And in the past few days, marching and fighting with these big guys has also made everyone toss enough.

But no matter how his subordinates protested, Li Ziyuan did not waste these big guys at will. Until this time, Li Ziyuan decided to use these few charges to fight this battle with a truck that directly blew up the big guy in the sky. According to Li Ziyuan's judgment, once this thing explodes, it can even blow up the Japanese army's bean tank directly into the sky.

So Li Ziyuan, who planned to make a quick decision, directly used these big guys. According to the calculated speed of the Japanese convoy and the distance between the vehicles, the mines were buried in key positions. And he commanded the troops, and laid an ambush directly along the ditch along the road.

He Huizhang, who had once again become a grenadier from a mortar gunner, concealed himself on a small high ground about 150 meters from the highway with the only Type 38 heavy machine gun he carried according to Li Ziyuan's deployment. The grenadier in his hand also pointed at the approaching convoy.

According to Li Ziyuan's deployment, regardless of whether the two mines can be blown up or not, these two trucks full of escort troops. He Huizhang's task was to replenish the two trucks with a few grenades. This place is too close to the Pingchuan stronghold, and Li Ziyuan really can't afford to delay it.

As for the congratulatory chapter with only five rounds of Japanese army-style 89 grenades left, Li Ziyuan couldn't care about Li Ziyuan's distressed complaints about the icing on the cake. How to defeat the escort troops as quickly as possible and solve this convoy is what Li Ziyuan needs to consider.

The two trucks in front and behind were loaded with live ammunition, and the Japanese convoy with a light machine gun on the roof of the cab all drove into the ambush circle. When the left front wheel of the head car fell into a small trap dug by Li Ziyuan, the miner pulled the rope of the mine in his hand fiercely.

This pull-out mine, which was converted from a rolling mine loaded with more than 10 kilograms of explosives, did not disappoint Li Ziyuan. The Japanese soldiers in the head car who were about to get out of the car to see what was wrong were directly blown up into the sky along with the truck they were riding in. The parts of the vehicle and the limbs of the people flew all over the sky, and almost all the Japanese soldiers in the whole car were reimbursed for not firing a single shot.

But the first thunder exploded, but the next mine made a mistake, and no matter how hard the miner tried, the mine just didn't move. The violent explosion in front of it immediately stopped the entire convoy. The Japanese soldiers in the truck behind them reacted quite quickly and were about to jump out of the car.

Once this car of Japanese soldiers is allowed to get off the car, even if Li Ziyuan concentrates the greatest firepower, he will have to waste some hands and feet. Although Li Ziyuan, who personally operated a light machine gun, did not care about revealing his command position, the crooked handle in his hand was directly a burst of fire, temporarily interrupting the Japanese army's action of jumping out of the car for a few seconds.

On the high ground behind, the congratulatory chapter also reacted quite quickly, except for the two grenade grenades, one of which hit a close arrow, and the other exploded directly on the stopped truck. The Meiji Type 38 heavy machine gun beside him was also fired at the last truck at the first time.

was lying in ambush on the side of the road, and his body was full of straw markers. At the same time, the first moment of the explosion of Larley also started, concentrating all the firepower at hand to attack the entire convoy. Guo Laosan, father and daughter, shot with accurate rifles, specializing in hitting the driver of the car.

The Japanese troops on the escort truck at the back were heavily killed and wounded by the dense fire that swept over. Before the Japanese troops in front of him could catch their breath, Li Ziyuan, who did not have much time left for him, rushed onto the road under the cover of machine-gun fire behind him with troops camouflaged with withered grass all over his body.

At this time, the Japanese troops escorting this convoy had only five or six remnants left, and they were still trying to resist stubbornly under the cover of cars. Li Ziyuan, who rushed onto the road, fired a grenade from He Huizhang behind him, and after driving out the Japanese soldiers hidden behind the car, the fast and slow machine in his hand was a burst of fire.

crossed fire with Liu Lianming, two fast and slow planes beside him, and directly knocked down the Japanese soldiers who were trying to kill and struggle. After almost eliminating the 2,000 rounds of heavy machine gun ammunition carried by the fire platoon, as well as all the grenadier grenades, Li Ziyuan resolved the battle in the shortest possible time.

As for the Japanese truck drivers who forcibly drove and tried to flee after discovering that the situation was wrong, they were either killed by the precise shooting of Guo Laosan's father and daughter, or they were hit in the fuel tank and ignited a raging fire. The driver who wanted to jump out of the car to escape was either killed by the fire from the pursuit, or before he had time to jump out of the car, he was hit with a thousand holes along with the cab.

Of the more than a dozen trucks, only one truck driver reacted faster. Braving the bullets from Li Ziyuan, he drove down the highway and followed the farmland on the side of the highway, increased the throttle and forcibly broke away and ran all the way in the direction of Pingchuan, only to escape by chance.

Looking at the truck, Li Ziyuan stopped the troops' intention to pursue. Running away from a truck doesn't matter to Li Ziyuan. The remaining trucks that failed to escape were enough to hurt the Japanese army. While arranging for the troops to quickly clean up the battlefield, Li Ziyuan opened the carport of a truck and tried to find out what was being transported in these trucks.