The location of that mountain village is indeed crucial, and it is a very important point around Cross Ridge. But that is, it is important for the location of the battlefield around Cross Ridge, and nothing else. At most, there are a few stragglers of the breakthrough force to the southeast, or where the wounded may be hidden.

As for any important department or headquarters organ, under this form, it will not be hidden for too long in the core area surrounded by the Japanese army. The Japanese army should now allocate more troops to pursue the troops and organs that break through in all directions, instead of staring at this point.

Even if the target of this Japanese army is itself, but he did not appear last night, it should have dispelled the doubts of the Japanese army. The Japanese army should not be just a tendon, thinking that they must be hiding in that mountain village. It's just that Li Ziyuan has no clue where the problem is.

Thinking of this, Li Ziyuan looked at the people behind him and wanted to ask, but finally gave up. Most of these people are members of non-classified departments, and even if there are secrets hidden in this mountain village, they may not know about it. Li Ziyuan felt that he should lead the team back to see what was there in that mountain village that made the Japanese army stare at it.

At least find He Sanliang and ask him what is going on. But the situation here made Li Ziyuan hesitate. He knew what his main task was at the moment, and he couldn't and shouldn't leave here without permission. But I didn't go by myself, I changed to someone else, and there was no suitable person right now.

Zeng Sheng's flexibility is a little poor, so he has to smash the pot. Ma Yongcheng is still too weak militarily, although he is still studying hard, but the problem is to let a person who can't fight go to touch the situation at this time, which is to let him and the troops he led to die.

Wang Changfeng is a suitable candidate, but now he has not come back from leading the team to find his brothers, and Liu Lianming does not know which direction to rush in now. There is really no more suitable person around me now. It's best to go on your own, but here's the problem. If I leave, what should I do if there is an accident here?

After hesitating for a moment, Li Ziyuan finally decided not to go for the time being. Let's see if the people who stayed over there to pick up Wang Changfeng and He Sanliang can come back and report first. I still stay here, so that I can stabilize the military spirit here. However, although Li Ziyuan decided to stay by himself, he still sent a squad leader scout to feel in that direction.

Li Ziyuan seemed a little uncertain here, and Ma Yongcheng beside him knew his thoughts, but he didn't know how to persuade him. Li Ziyuan decided to withdraw to this mountain to hide, and Ma Yongcheng did not agree with it at the moment. In his opinion, no matter what happened to the mountain village before, but now it is like a magnet, attracting the surrounding Japanese puppet army.

What Li Ziyuan should do now is to take advantage of the opportunity of the Japanese army to adjust its deployment, and take these people to find the gap and jump out. Instead of staying here because it's too dangerous. After hesitating for a moment, Ma Yongcheng finally said his thoughts.

When Ma Yongcheng finished saying his thoughts, Li Ziyuan shook his head and said to Ma Yongcheng: "Old Ma, the devil is now surrounding that mountain village on all sides. At least on the surface, the Japanese army moved for whatever reason. But there will definitely be a certain gap behind us, at least as long as we are not too lucky, we will definitely find the exit and jump out. ”

"But the problem at the moment is not so simple to me, at least not as simple as it seems on the surface. A small mountain village of this size, no matter what kind of secrets it hid, was not worth such a big move by the Japanese army. But the Japanese army is just staring at this mountain village, is their deployment on the periphery so simple? ”

"I've been thinking since last night whether the Japanese army is looking for us or because of something else. Either way, I can't figure out why. However, I feel that the intention of the Japanese army is by no means as simple as it seems. ”

"Before we found out what the Japanese army was tired of, we were sloppy and reckless in that direction. Old horse, I feel like we're now at the center of a great maelstrom. We are in this whirlpool, and if we are not careful, we are in danger of being swept under the water. ”

"So, my mind now is that I'd rather be slower, but definitely not reckless. Everything, wait until the people we sent out come back. The enemy situation is unknown, and I need to straighten out the relationship and make up my mind about what to do next. Your brother's main focus now is to stabilize the mood of those intellectuals. ”

Speaking of which, Li Ziyuan didn't speak. After just glancing at the surrounding situation, he closed his mouth tightly. Li Ziyuan didn't want to say more, and Ma Yongcheng, who knew his character, didn't ask much. Li Ziyuan has always been a strong kind of person in military affairs, and since he has made up his mind, he will never allow anyone to interfere.

Although he was very dissatisfied with Li Ziyuan's explanation, Ma Yongcheng did not continue to dig into the roots. But just as Ma Yongcheng was leaving, Li Ziyuan's words came from behind: "Old Ma, you remember that you are the instructor of the army, and you are the chief political officer of our army." ”

"Now that everyone is looking at you and me, whether the two of us can stabilize our spirits is not only related to the emotional stability of those non-combatants, but also to the emotional stability of our fighters. Stabilize God, as long as Lao Tzu does not die, this day will not fall. ”

After Li Ziyuan's words were finished, Ma Yongcheng's face showed a bitter and slightly embarrassed smile. felt that his thoughts were all seen very thoroughly by Li Ziyuan. But embarrassment is embarrassment, but after Li Ziyuan's beating, Ma Yongcheng's mind is much more stable.

In fact, Li Ziyuan didn't know that the real target of this Japanese army was really him. And on the outskirts of that mountain village, it was his sworn enemy Tsuruta Numan who directly commanded the actions of the surrounding Japanese army units. Li Ziyuan was transferred to the division headquarters by a fake telegram, which was also a fake telegram planned by Tsuruta Nuanan using the deciphered telegram code of the 129th Division.

For Tsuruta Nunan, he thinks that Li Ziyuan has become bigger in Hubei at the moment and has become a complete head snake. The people's sentiments and terrain are too favorable for this guy. It is quite difficult to capture or even eliminate them in Hubei. And this guy is too cunning, no matter how ordinary plainclothes armed he is, he can also see the flaws.

In order to eliminate Li Ziyuan's department as soon as possible, Tsuruta Numan used the entire sweeping plan issued by the Japanese army this time, and secretly prepared another set of plans. When using a fake telegram to mobilize Li Ziyuan to return to the division headquarters, Tsuruta Numanan set up three encirclements for Li Ziyuan along the way.

It's just that he didn't expect that even after Li Ziyuan received such an urgent telegram, he would rather go around a long distance, and the troops almost vomited blood, and did not follow the route he set. It wasn't until Li Ziyuan defeated the Okawa Momoyoshi Advance Team, the special team he had painstakingly cultivated, that Tsuruta Numan knew that Li Ziyuan had bypassed his ambush location.

Tsuruta Nunan, who could no longer sit still, rushed directly from the county seat of Liaoxian County to the vicinity of the Cross Ridge. When Li Ziyuan rushed into the Cross Ridge encirclement after several hard battles, Tsuruta Numan watched the battle from a commanding height in the northwest of Li Ziyuan's combat area. The Eighth Route Army that rushed into the encirclement, he could see at a glance that it was Li Ziyuan's department.

After Li Ziyuan rushed into the encirclement, he repeatedly reminded all the departments of the Hewei Cross Ridge to take strict precautions. Even if most of the eight roads on the Cross Ridge have been rushed out, they must not be careless. It's just that he is just an intelligence staff officer, and he hardly buys his orders to the commanders of the troops who stayed at Cross Ridge to prepare to search the mountains.

As a result, Li Ziyuan was caught off guard, and it was almost a fairly smooth breakthrough. However, according to the confession of a straggler captured by the Japanese army, after learning about the actual situation of Li Ziyuan's department. After obtaining the authorization of the division commander, Tsuruta Numanan of Cross Ridge quickly mobilized a brigade of the surrounding Japanese army.

and Li Ziyuan, who was responsible for capturing the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, but did not want to be suddenly inserted, gave the remnants of the Mashiko Advance Team, who was crippled, and supplemented the pseudo-Changzhi plainclothes team and Hubei plainclothes team brought by himself, as well as the strength of half of the squadron of the division and regimental search wing, and restored the establishment of the Mashiko Advance Team.

The surviving lieutenant of the second squad of the advance team, Lieutenant Zhu Unit, was appointed as the new captain, and he personally commanded and cooperated with the remaining Japanese puppet army to capture the remnants of Li Ziyuan's department. After learning that the wife of the deputy commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army was also in Li Ziyuan's department, the commander of the 36th Division gave Tsuruta Numan the authorization to mobilize surrounding forces at any time.

And the scene in that mountain village was also planned by Tsuruta Numan who was on the periphery of that mountain village at that time. Because that mountain village was the only place in the vicinity that could replenish supplies, and the place where Li Ziyuan's headquarters had to break through to the southeast. So Tsuruta Numan used that mountain village as a bait to catch Li Ziyuan's department.

Although he is an intelligence staff officer, after all, he graduated from the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School and the Japanese Army University, and his military foundation is quite solid. According to the current situation of Li Ziyuan's department, he accurately calculated the marching speed of Li Ziyuan's department, and set this trap.

At the same time, in order to prevent the Cross Ridge incident from being staged at one time, Tsuruta Numan also deployed ambush circles around several mountain passes in the southeast. Especially on the front line of the deep mountainous area of Taihang Mountain in the direction of Shexian County, Tsuruta Numan invested almost all his remaining mobile forces.

If Li Ziyuan was really in a hurry to leave the area around Cross Ridge quickly after breaking through from Cross Ridge at that time, he might have really crashed into the ambush circle set up by Tsuruta Numanu. It's just that the only thing that Tsuruta Numan didn't calculate was that there was a pregnant woman in Li Ziyuan's department.

And because of the forced march and breakthrough along the way, he was actually born prematurely at the most inopportune time. What Tsuruta Nuanan didn't expect was that Li Ziyuan actually dared to wait patiently for this pregnant woman to give birth under his nose. It takes a long time to give birth to a child, and Li Ziyuan waited patiently until the mother gave birth, although a lot of precious time was wasted.

But by mistake, he successfully avoided the trap set for him by Tsuruta Numa. As a result, the several ambush circles set up by Tsuruta Numan on the periphery have not been able to wait for Li Ziyuan's department. While making Tsuruta Nuanan somewhat dull, he could only constantly adjust his deployment and force Li Ziyuan, who didn't know where he was hidden, to show his head by himself.