The possibility of getting lost is not impossible, but it is basically very small. They were led by a militia captain who had grown up here since childhood and was quite familiar with the mountains and rivers here, and there was no possibility of getting lost at all. To say that there is something wrong with that militia captain? Also unlikely. The fact that the military region has placed a field hospital here is enough to show that the cadres here are definitely reliable.

In addition to ruling out these possibilities, Li Ziyuan was a little confused as to why the roundabout troops had not arrived for a long time. But at the moment, it is unrealistic to send someone to find it, the only thing Li Ziyuan can do is to wait patiently, and it will depend on the situation at that time.

However, in order to deal with the accident, Li Ziyuan still ordered the company led by the battalion instructor to prepare for a counterattack in advance. But before receiving your own orders, you must do a good job of concealment and never show your head. At the same time, the first-line blocking position was appropriately contracted, the two protruding points on the eastern mountain and the mountainside were abandoned, and the troops were concentrated to hold the ridge line.

The reason why Li Ziyuan did this was very simple, if the Japanese commander calmed down and prepared to retreat, and the roundabout troops had not yet arrived at the designated position, he would have to launch a counterattack in advance. In order to disperse the forces of the Japanese puppet army in the front as much as possible, and stick to part of the Japanese puppet army, it will not be so easy for them to withdraw.

These are all key points on the East Mountain, and if the Japanese army wants to seize the East Mountain, then these points must be controlled. In the current situation where the Japanese army is taking the lead with the puppet army, it is necessary to maintain a sufficient number of attack forces on the front line. Then these points will inevitably be controlled by the Japanese army. In this way, the strength of the Japanese army, which was the backbone, was bound to be dispersed.

If the Japanese army's combat strength were to be gathered, it would inevitably affect the course of the entire battle, and even greatly delay the end of the battle. If you want to solve this Japanese puppet army in a short period of time, the first thing to solve is the Japanese army as the backbone. Then it became an inevitable choice for the Japanese army to disperse its forces as much as possible.

Although one of the salient points located on the left flank is abandoned, it will cause a certain passivity to their defenses. If the Japanese moved a heavy machine gun to that protruding point, it would pose a great threat to themselves. And this protrusion is a great threat to their flanks. But if you want the fish to bite the bait and not let go, it is not possible to add some sweetness to the bait.

Although there were certain flaws in his actions, Li Ziyuan still did not give up the idea of completely defeating this Japanese puppet army. Therefore, after he decisively reduced his troops, on the one hand, he constantly adjusted the deployment of the frontal position, and let the Japanese puppet army disperse itself as much as possible. On the one hand, he kept his eyes on the direction in which the roundabout troops should appear, so as to be ready to attack at any time.

When the watch hands in Li Ziyuan's hand pointed to the fifty-minute position of the detour troops. After a long-distance attack at the foot of the mountain, the fatigue of the Japanese puppet army, which had been fighting continuously, had been revealed at this time. Not to mention the puppet army with poor combat effectiveness, even the Japanese army itself is a little unable to support it.

The art of war is cloudy, and it will decline and exhaust once it is vigorous. The continuous assault failed, and Li Ziyuan was like a monkey for a long time. After entering the Dongshan battlefield, it was a continuous battle in an unfamiliar environment, and the Japanese puppet army was already exhausted, and the offensive had begun to become somewhat weak.

Under the condition that there was already obvious fatigue, the Japanese puppet army began to prepare to reduce its strength in the same way. Not only did the intensity of artillery support gradually begin to decline, but the number of troops engaged in the offensive began to decrease one after another. When the puppet army began to adjust its deployment again, Li Ziyuan knew that if he still wanted to achieve his goal, he couldn't wait.

The offensive of the Japanese puppet army had begun to weaken, and they gave up a prominent point on the right flank that they had abandoned before, and began to gradually shrink their forces. This is enough to show that the Japanese commander under the mountain has now completely calmed down. If the time for the counterattack drags on, I'm afraid I won't even be able to catch a single hair.

Regardless of whether the roundabout troops can arrive in time or not, the time has come to make up their minds. Even with his current strength, he can't completely annihilate this Japanese puppet army. But at least a piece of bloody flesh must be torn off from them, so that this Japanese puppet army will be wounded and weakened, so as to dispel the Japanese army's idea of interspersing with sneak attacks with small troops.

Li Ziyuan's judgment was not wrong, Hideo Ikeda under the mountain was indeed preparing to retreat at this time. After an hour of fierce fighting at the foot of the East Mountain, he was unable to break through the blockade of the Eighth Road on the mountain. The detour troops have not been able to make a breakthrough on the side, which has completely calmed down his originally hot mind.

Under the analysis and judgment of a lieutenant beside him, and after fully considering the terrain and environment around him, His Excellency found that his current situation was very unfavorable. At the foot of the East Mountain is a mountain col terrain, and under the condition that his troops are still limited, he cannot fully control the commanding heights around him.

Now the troops have been unable to attack for a long time, and they are already exhausted. The most important thing is that the artillery squadron clearly told itself that after the early stage of high-intensity use, the number of shells carried is not much. Now on average, there are less than twenty shells left for each mortar. If you want to maintain the current density of fire, you will run out of shells in an hour at most.

The number of shells left was low, and the terrain was extremely unfavorable. If you continue to learn in this stalemate, unless you can make a breakthrough in a short period of time. Otherwise, once the surrounding eight roads continue to reinforce him, then he will be the turtle trapped in the urn.

The first reinforcement of the Eighth Route has arrived, but the Eighth Route will definitely not support the army like this. As for the troops around him, there is no possibility of reinforcements coming over in a short time. Even the several troops that entered the Taihang Mountains at the same time could only contact two, and the rest could never be contacted.

Because in the entire tactical deployment of the division and regiment, he is a pawn. After attracting and distracting the attention of the eight roads, what he should have done was to quickly move closer to the main force. In the entire battle plan of the division and regiment, as part of the feint to attract firepower, there is no one who is trapped and needs to be rescued.

This is the core of the Eighth Route Base Area, and God knows how many Eighth Route reinforcements will come after such a long time. The only way out in front of him now is to immediately withdraw and move closer to the main force. Although he is still a little unwilling, the key problem is that it is really difficult to predict the consequences if he continues to fight, and he has been alone for too long.

Thinking of this, this Hideo Ikeda has not yet softened. However, in terms of deployment, the retreat has begun one after another. He gave the troops who originally detoured to the right flank of Dongshan an order to entangle the Eighth Route on the opposite side. At the same time, the frontal attacking troops were ordered to abandon the two salient points that had already been seized.

Concentrate their forces to launch an attack, and if they do not break through the blockade of the eight roads in front of them, except for the part that remains to control the mountainside as a cover, the rest of the troops will immediately withdraw from the mountain. At the same time, he was prepared to draw a small number of troops and immediately take control of the two commanding heights to the west. Although he has made up his mind to retreat, this deployment of Hideo Ikeda is somewhat unwilling.

Although his reason was to launch an attack with one last broken ship, in order to cover the assembly under the mountain and prepare for retreat. But anyone with a discerning eye can see that this old man still doesn't give up until the Yellow River. Although the rest of the Japanese officers disagreed, they did not have any way to do it.

Compared with the Japanese officers who tried hard to persuade Hideo Ikeda, although the two puppet army majors had developed some keen sense of smell from their years of dealing with the Eighth Road, they intuitively felt that the current situation was a little bad. But the Japanese themselves can't persuade them, let alone those who are originally expendable in the eyes of the Japanese army?

If you provoke His Excellency the Young Minister, don't look at the fact that both of you are majors, and you are equal in rank with others. But the problem is that in the eyes of the Japanese, the value of a major is not as good as that of an ordinary soldier of theirs. If you provoke this stubborn Shaozuo, it is possible to chop yourself alive with a knife. So the two of them were very clever to keep their mouths shut and didn't say anything.

The official university crushed people to death, and people did what Shaozuo said. But fortunately, this Young Lady has finally agreed to retreat now, which is already the greatest good thing. In other words, Li Ziyuan on the mountain, if he still stubbornly chooses to wait, he may really only be able to touch the ass of the Japanese puppet army.

But just when the Japanese army bluffed to launch the last attack, and Li Ziyuan's last patience ran out, ready not to wait for the roundabout troops to arrive. He held a Japanese non-commissioned officer telescope beside him, observing the Japanese artillery positions. The instructors of the battalion were also anxious because the roundabout troops led by their battalion commander had not appeared for 20 minutes after the scheduled time, and had never appeared.

Pointing to the Japanese artillery position, he said to Li Ziyuan: "Chief, it seems that our battalion commander has arrived." Look at the Japanese artillery, is there something wrong? Except for the Japanese artillerymen who were busy firing, the small number of alert troops behind them seemed to have disappeared out of thin air. ”

Hearing the instructor's reminder, Li Ziyuan immediately raised his binoculars and looked over there. The magnification of the telescope in his hand was much higher than that of the Japanese non-commissioned officer telescope in the instructor's hand, so it was clearer when he looked at the target.

The instructor was right, at this time in his telescope, it turned out that the few alert troops on the periphery of the Japanese artillery position had disappeared. Only the Japanese artillery on the position was left to fire indiscriminately to cover the last attack of the Japanese puppet army, and there was no time for the Japanese artillery.

And the battalion commander, who had delayed for more than 20 minutes, stuck the shell gun on his belt, his body was full of camouflage, and he was carrying a big knife and was carefully infiltrating the Japanese artillery position with the troops who were also dressed around him. Prepare to attack the Japanese artillery, take this artillery position in one go, and capture these mortars.

Seeing this, although the battalion commander was a little too late, Li Ziyuan, who had always been a little annoyed, was happy. I don't know if it was my original words, which stimulated the battalion commander a lot. Or do you really want to capture these mortars? He took a sneak attack instead of a strong attack, intending to capture these Japanese mortars.

Thinking about it, for the poor Eighth Route Army, a Type 38 rifle is a good thing. If each platoon is equipped with a crooked machine gun, it is definitely at the level of a local tyrant. For the more lacking mortars and other supporting firepower, no matter which unit has only one of them, it will be excited for a long time.