Here, Li Ziyuan took two trucks for Liu Lianming to rush to transport materials here. After taking the rest of the trucks and carts to the place of detention. Immediately put all the rescued people into the car. Ordered the commander of the first company and Wang Jun to immediately evacuate with these people.

When Li Ziyuan organized the retreat of the rescued personnel, he also encountered some unexpected things. Because of the long-term brutality of the Japanese puppet army, especially the Japanese soldiers who had just been transferred to defend them, they did a lot of evil. Let some ordinary people who can't bear it also drag their families and ask to leave Pingchuan with Li Ziyuan's subordinates and live in the base area in the mountainous area in the eastern part of Hubei.

Although the number of these ordinary people is not much, there are more than 200 people in dozens of households, which also gives Li Ziyuan a headache. Fortunately, most of these people can still follow on foot. Seeing the eager eyes of these ordinary people, Li Ziyuan simply waved his hand and took them all away.

While rushing to transport the personnel, Li Ziyuan sent people to knock on the door door. Use counterfeit money higher than the market price to buy the big livestock of the people of Pingchuan. From donkeys and horses to mules, as well as ploughing oxen, they were bought, and if they were equipped with carts, they were also bought.

Although Wang Tieshi's team headquarters has not yet been captured, the troops who rushed into Pingchuan Town in order to collect the cart, under Li Ziyuan's nod, were after solving the small team of garrisons stationed at his house. directly copied Wang Tieshi outside his headquarters, occupied a quarter of the entire Pingchuan Town, and built an extremely luxurious home.

After this old man was broken through on the outskirts of Pingchuan, he only had time to take his six wives and gold bars that were convenient to carry and ran into the headquarters. I didn't have time to take anything else. In his palatial home, the good things were definitely no worse than his munitions storehouse.

In the backyard of his house, there were dozens of mules and horses, including more than a dozen good horses, and two fine Japanese horses. More than a dozen large cars and three-trailer sedan cars are neatly placed in the backyard. These were all the transportation capacity that Li Ziyuan urgently needed when he retreated, and of course the troops were unceremoniously taken away.

In addition to these dozens of mules and horses, the troops also turned out a whole large ocean of two large water tanks in a cellar in this old man's house, and the amount of counterfeit currency and fiat currency cash was also hundreds of thousands. As for the tobacco soil that can be used as hard currency, there are more than 100 kilograms. However, for a large number of antiques, the troops who went in to search did not know them, but no one moved.

These oceanic and counterfeit coins are still the case when this old man has deposited most of his cash in a bank in Tianjin or Shanghai, and the amount of cash left at home is not much. The money, of course, was confiscated directly by the troops. There was also a batch of weapons and ammunition in his home, and he was also not polite to him.

In order to solve the problem of large livestock being snatched by the Japanese puppet army, the impact on agricultural production in the entire Ludong area. Li Ziyuan used the seized counterfeit money on the spot to buy it from the common people in Pingchuan and the merchants passing by. As long as it can be used, whether it is a mule or a horse, whether it is a donkey or a cow, Li Ziyuan will buy it at a price one-third higher than the market price.

At the same time, he also used the money to buy a batch of soybeans and peanuts in Pingchuan, plus a large number of eggs. The dozens of stones of wheat stored by Wang Tieshi's family were also unceremoniously confiscated by the troops. Even in addition to the more than 20 big cars seized by Liu Lianming, many big cars were found in Wang Tieshi's house.

However, the collected materials still make the capacity a little tight. Pingchuan, which is an important place for transportation from Jinnan to Jinzhong, is too rich here. Even in the year of natural and man-made disasters, there are still many merchants coming and going. Li Ziyuan used the seized funds to buy a lot of materials that were in short supply in the base area.

Paper, batteries, salt, medicines, cloth, cotton, you can buy as much as you can. Even the entire Pingchuan pigs, as long as they were enough to slaughter, were bought by him. Of course, these ordinary people who have lived under the prestige of the Japanese puppet army for a long time, although Li Ziyuan opened a high price, they don't really want to sell, and they are worried about the retaliation of the Japanese puppet army afterwards.

But Li Ziyuan didn't care about violating discipline at this time, the money was placed in front of you, and the livestock and things were directly taken away or moved. When Li Ziyuan finished arranging the retreat, the troops were lightly armed when they came. By the time of the evacuation, the convoy had seventy or eighty carts full of people or loads, plus more than 300 large animals full of supplies.

Li Ziyuan nervously arranged the retreat over there, but the battle on Zhang Zijian's side fell into a stalemate. After Li Ziyuan attacked Pingchuan in a row, and even hit Changzhi City. The Japanese puppet army in Pingchuan significantly strengthened the defensive structure of the original team headquarters. Not only did the wall increase a lot, but a lot of fortifications were built along the wall.

It also forcibly occupied the houses around its so-called headquarters, and after rebuilding and strengthening it, it formed a group of fortifications with its team headquarters. The location of his joint defense headquarters was designed by a staff officer of the Japanese army whom he spent a sum of money. Various fortifications are layered on top of each other, and the firing boundaries are intersecting and cooperating with each other.

After Zhang Zijian commanded the troops to break into the town, almost all the puppet troops immediately shrank into the team headquarters and the surrounding houses at the first time. Using houses and fortifications, they are constantly desperately resisting for cover. This is almost nothing to do for Zhang Zijian, who lacks support firepower.

Zhou Tong was seriously wounded in the previous battle outside the town, and the direct-fire platoon under his command also suffered more than half of the casualties, and was unable to provide fire support. The joint defense headquarters of the puppet Hubei and Ludong, as well as the surrounding houses, have now been specially strengthened. There are also patches of barbed wire and makeshift fortifications made of sandbags. In the absence of artillery support, it is definitely a tough nut.

The most important thing is that these puppet armies, when they fight tough battles or field battles, their combat effectiveness is quite low. An encounter can be fought into a sheep herd. However, when this kind of fortification group is stubbornly defended, it still has a certain level. Moreover, these puppet troops who withdrew here are basically Wang Tieshi's henchmen and descendants of his lineage.

is not only well equipped, but also loyal to Wang Tieshi. At this time, when there was no way to retreat, he used the cover of his fortification group to ignore the demands of the attacking troops for his surrender and desperately resisted.

It's not that it can't be gnawed down at all, but this casualty figure will definitely not be light. At this time, Zhang Zijian, who was a little angry, saw that there was fire spewing everywhere around the puppet joint defense command. The warriors, who couldn't be relied on at all, could only use the corners of some houses to shoot at them, and smashed their fists on the walls.

Seeing that Zhang Zijian was a little anxious, Li Ziyuan, who returned after arranging for the retreat of those rescued people and personally sending them out of the town, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Old Zhang, don't worry, your brother still extinguishes the fire." Now that the personnel have been rescued, our tactical objectives have been achieved. ”

"Our task now is not to completely eliminate them. Instead, they dragged the guys and covered the transfer personnel to go farther. Eat them, and there is no rush yet. As long as they don't rush out, they don't interfere with our retreat. They are willing to be shrunken turtles there, so let them be good. ”

As soon as Li Ziyuan said this, Zhang Zijian, who was somewhat impatient, calmed down suddenly. Turning his head to Li Ziyuan, he said, "Commander, I finally understand why you have to keep Wang Jun's kid now." Our support firepower is weak, and the number of artillery shells is extremely short, so we can only rely on this kind of offensive operation*. ”

"If we had a well-trained engineer company, we wouldn't have to work so hard to attack. Commander, I now understand your hard work. Rest assured, I'll know what to do later. When I go back, I will find Dong Ping and Wang Jun and apologize to them. ”

Regarding Zhang Zijian's words, Li Ziyuan nodded with satisfaction and said, "Lao Zhang, it's not too late for you to understand now." At least we haven't traded the blood of our own warriors on the battlefield to get this understanding. Lao Zhang, you remember what I said, those of us who are commanders must be good at discovering talents and boldly using them. ”

"We have innate advantages, but innate weaknesses are more obvious. There are almost no technical arms, and even if there are, they will not be used by our regiment-level troops. But in real combat, as a front-line combat unit, you can't completely avoid attacking tough battles. We can't count on a complete range of artillery cover like a devil, after all, where are the innate conditions. ”

"But the problem is, the order from the higher authorities has come down, and there is no artillery cover to fight, what should I do? You can't take the lives of the warriors to pile them up. Our current situation is that there is a great need for skilled military talents, but we do not have the ability to train them. Then you have to use your brain and go to others to dig the foot of the wall. ”

"You don't care if he was cultivated over there, as long as he has this ability, as long as they can be used by me. To be a leader, you must have a mind that embraces all rivers. But Lao Zhang, there is no need to apologize. I believe that as long as your brother twists this bend, he will be able to get out of a wider world. ”

After Li Ziyuan's words were finished, Zhang Zijian fell into deep thought. And just as the conversation between the two men ended, two warriors from the other side ran over. Seeing that the head and deputy heads of the regiment were there, he hurriedly saluted and reported. The communicator sent by the Fourth Company reported that the battle on the Qiaokou side had ended. The puppet army dispatched from Qiaokou surrendered after being attacked by our ambush troops.

The puppet army on the side of the fallen horse did not act at all. As soon as this side was fired, they immediately abandoned all the outer fortifications and retreated back to the turrets of the fallen strongholds. And instead of coming out for reinforcements, he is still desperately shooting empty guns outward, regardless of whether there are eight roads on the periphery.

However, at present, a large number of puppet troops dispatched from Hubei County and various strongholds north of Pingchuan are under the supervision and cooperation of the Japanese army, and the speed and intensity of reinforcements are very high. In particular, the puppet army that dispatched a reinforced battalion from Hubei County, with the cooperation of two Japanese squads, had great reinforcements.

After listening to the report of the soldiers sent by this reconnaissance company, Li Ziyuan pondered for a while, then raised his head and said, "Tell you Qian Defu, don't fight to the death with the Japanese puppet army." Minefields and cold-gun tactics along the terrain can delay the speed of action of the Japanese puppet army. In addition, after twenty minutes, I will immediately give you a company of reinforcements. ”

After explaining the correspondent sent by Qian Defu, Li Ziyuan immediately asked people to call the commander of the third company. Let him immediately take two heavy machine guns, reinforce a mortar and run to reinforce Chandford there. At the same time, a platoon left by the first company was transferred and immediately took over the defense area of the third company.