Although it has long been known that the Japanese puppet army's sweep has come to an end. But the speed of the retreat of the Japanese puppet army was still very unexpected by Li Ziyuan. The division reminded itself to prevent the back road from being cut off, which was in response to the Japanese puppet army's beginning to evacuate and worry about Li Ziyuan's current environment.

Even the military sub-district directly asked Li Ziyuan to retreat immediately if he could not complete the predetermined plan. This shows that the military sub-districts are still quite unoptimistic about their judgment on the development of the situation. Thinking of this, Li Ziyuan was somewhat hesitant about whether tonight's plan would be implemented or not.

But Li Ziyuan's hesitation was finally overcome by firm determination. This battle must be fought, otherwise all last night's efforts will be in vain. If they don't put more pressure on the Japanese puppet army in Changzhi City, they won't be in a hurry to send food away. But how to fight, this strength still has to be controlled.

Thinking of this, Li Ziyuan took out a pen and paper and drafted a reply call to the military sub-district. After reorganizing his thoughts in his heart, he made a detailed report to the military sub-district. In particular, he made up his mind and made a report to the military sub-district. After drafting the telegram, Li Ziyuan immediately issued an order to assemble without waiting for the division to call back.

Watching Li Ziyuan gather troops here, the commander and political commissar of the Changzhi Independent Battalion, who had been discussing there, finally nodded and accepted Li Ziyuan's request. However, they offered to add a light machine gun to their troops, and the number of bullets was at least doubled.

Regarding this request, after the two promised to obey the command, Li Ziyuan did not hesitate to meet their request. However, this time they were not given British-made weapons, but more than 50 38 rifles and two Type 96 light machine guns and ammunition seized from the Nanguan Freight Yard during last night's battle were also transferred to the Changzhi Independent Battalion.

Li Ziyuan still used his heart in this arrangement. The original equipment of the Changzhi Independent Battalion was mainly based on Jin-made rifles and a small number of Type 38 rifles. British-made weapons performed better than these two, but the problem was that not only they, but even their own troops, did not use those British-made Enfield rifles, as well as light machine guns that were somewhat similar, but not identical, to Czech LMGs.

Weapons that are familiar with them are not familiar, and weapons with good performance but first contact may not be suitable for the current situation. So Li Ziyuan still gave them all the Japanese-made weapons he seized last night, after all, they are more familiar with the Type 38 rifle, and it is easier to exert the power of the weapon.

After handing over the seized weapons, except for Li Ziyuan, who took an English-made rifle himself, the rest of the British-made weapons seized from the freight yard were all fortified on the spot by him in a place in the Laoding Mountains. Prepare to wait until this battle is over, and take it away when you are ready to evacuate.

After completing the deployment of weapons, Li Ziyuan saw that the sky was completely dark, and immediately led his troops towards Changzhi City. In order to avoid the Japanese puppet army, they may be searching for their own eyeliner everywhere, not revealing the Laoding Mountain area that they are currently hidden. When Li Ziyuan moved outside the city of Changzhi, he chose to divide the troops into two detours.

Li Ziyuan commanded the main force of his own troops, plus a company of the Changzhi Independent Battalion, bypassing the west of the city and penetrating into Nanguan. And He Sanliang commanded two companies, with the main force of the Changzhi Independent Battalion, and inserted it from the east of the city to Nanguan. Before leaving, Li Ziyuan repeatedly explained that if he could not shoot during the operation, he would never shoot.

But although Li Ziyuan has been careful, today's action is far from being as smooth as the previous day. The Japanese army inside and outside the entire Changzhi City was heavily guarded, so that Li Ziyuan's actions were almost exposed several times. Although Li Ziyuan led the team, he bypassed all the villages with people. The whole line of action is along the field.

But the problem is that tonight, the vigilance of the Japanese puppet army inside and outside Changzhi City is far greater than the day before. Just as the main force under the command of Li Ziyuan bypassed the west pass of Changzhi City, in the southwest direction of Changzhi City, it encountered a mixed formation of the Japanese puppet army and a car patrol with two armored cars.

Despite the sound of the car engine, Li Ziyuan spotted the Japanese puppet army before the head-on collision. However, from the distance between the two armies, coupled with the current terrain, it is impossible for Li Ziyuan's department to find a suitable place to hide before the Japanese puppet army patrol arrives.

Seeing that it is inevitable to see, then there is nothing to say, let's get him a guy first. After making up his mind, Li Ziyuan immediately commanded his troops to disperse to both sides of the road to hide and prepare for battle. Taking advantage of the last gap before the Japanese convoy came, Li Ziyuan asked Zhou Tong to add up the mountain cannon and shoot the Japanese armored car flat first.

Even if it can't be blown up with flat-fire mountain artillery, at least it will make this armored car unable to use firepower. Otherwise, this armored car, for itself, which does not have any anti-tank means, will give itself the idea of a quick battle, which will bring quite trouble. All light and heavy machine guns were also set up, forming crossfire on both sides of the road.

Looking at the mobile patrol team composed of five trucks, three motorcycles, and one armored car at the head and tail, the Japanese puppet army drove along the dilapidated road outside Changzhi City into the ambush circle that they hastily deployed. Li Ziyuan did not rush to fire at the first time, but waited very calmly for the Japanese puppet army to enter his ambush circle, and the Enfield rifle in his hand was the first to fire.

Just when Li Ziyuan fired the first shot, all the troops ambushed on both sides of the road also fired the rifle machine guns in their hands at the first time. All of a sudden, in the southwest corner of Changzhi, the sound of intensive gunfire pierced the night sky that had been quiet before. But despite the surprise attack, this Japanese puppet army was clearly prepared.

After the dense rain of bullets on both sides of the road, I immediately wanted to jump out of the car. The two vehicles in front and behind, one left and one right, were aimed at the machine gun fire on both sides of the road, and immediately drove back and forth continuously, while constantly opening or suppressing the fire points on both sides of the road, trying to cover the Japanese puppet army on the truck to jump out of the car.

Except for the one that was destroyed, the other two immediately stopped and covered the infantry on the trucks with machine-gun fire from the sidecars. But Li Ziyuan, who knew that the longer the battle here dragged on, the more unfavorable it would be to himself, since he had made up his mind to fight this battle, he would be bitten back by these Japanese puppet troops.

Just when the armored car at the head was reversing to cover the infantry getting out of the car, it was constantly strafing with the on-board machine gun fire. A 75-millimeter mountain shell directly overturned the armored car to the side of the road. Although the use of non-armor-piercing grenades failed to completely destroy the armored car.

But the seven-five grenade that exploded on the body of the car was not a grenade fired from a grenadier after all. This grenade directly hit the armored car, stunning the occupants inside almost immediately. The armored car was also turned over by the force of the explosion, which directly gave it a 180-degree turn.

At the same time, He Huizhang's mortar was also fired at the first time. Two mortar shots fired rapidly, directly blasting the truck on the highway into the sky. And with the machine gun fire on both sides, the Japanese puppet soldiers who were jumping out of the car or had already jumped out of the car were knocked down in pieces.

The Japanese puppet army in the patrol team saw that it was a hard bone, and they had no will to fight at the moment. The remnants of the Japanese puppet army tried to quickly retreat in the direction of Changzhi City under the cover of the remaining armored vehicles. However, Zhou Tong fired another shell, although it did not hit directly, but it was also a close-range shell that damaged the engine of the armored car.

Seeing that the second armored car was paralyzed, Li Ziyuan, who took advantage of your illness to kill you, directly ordered to launch a full-line charge. His intention was simple, as soon as the battle began, his side was all exposed. The Japanese puppet army in Changzhi City will be reinforced as soon as possible. This side can't make a quick decision, which will directly affect their next move.

Since he had already encountered this patrol of more than 40 Japanese soldiers and more than 50 puppet soldiers, he absolutely could not expose himself to the enemy. But despite having made up his mind to get rid of this patrol, Li Ziyuan did not relax his vigilance in other directions. After launching a charge here, Li Ziyuan immediately unfolded the two formed companies in his hands in the direction of Changzhi City in the east.

Sure enough, just when the two armies on this side were just mixed together, the Japanese puppet army in Changzhi City, which was alarmed by the sound of gunfire, had already rushed out quickly. A reinforced squadron of Japanese troops, under the cover of more than 200 puppet troops and two mountain guns, desperately attacked towards the place where the guns rang out.

However, when Li Ziyuan launched the attack, most of the machine guns, which were no longer of much use in close combat, and two mortars, were allocated to the blocking force. Coupled with the ammunition in Li Ziyuan's hands at the moment, it can even be described as sufficient. Although the terrain is a little unfavorable at the moment, it still stubbornly withstood the onslaught of the Japanese puppet army.

Hearing the sound of gunfire in the east, Li Ziyuan looked at the time on his watch. But he raised the telescope very calmly, and while observing the blocking battle in the direction of the Japanese reinforcements, he continued to give orders to the battle situation here, urging the troops of the Japanese puppet army patrol to speed up the battle as much as possible.

In fact, on the battlefield here, there is nothing to solve at this time. Under Li Ziyuan's intensive firepower attack before, the Japanese puppet army patrol that had already suffered more than half of the casualties, and the remaining thirty or forty people who had lost all their supporting firepower, could not be the opponent of Li Ziyuan's two companies at all.

After more than ten minutes of melee, all the most stubborn Japanese soldiers were killed, and more than 20 remaining puppet troops also laid down their arms. As soon as the battle here ended, Li Ziyuan, who didn't want to stay here for a long time, used a grenade to use the fuel tank on the Japanese armored car to directly blow up the two armored cars. After setting fire to the remaining Japanese trucks and motorcycles, all the fuel tanks were set on fire, and then they were ready to take alternate cover for retreat.

But at this time, Li Ziyuan found that his battle here was fast. But the surrounding Japanese puppet army, the speed of reinforcement is not slow. As soon as everything was done here, gunshots were already ringing out in several directions around his troops. Moreover, the Japanese artillery shells that fell on their heads have increased from 70 mm and 75 mm to 120 mm caliber.

Listening to the dense gunfire around him, Li Ziyuan knew that this was the main force of the surrounding Japanese puppet army. The two companies of the Japanese puppet army were blocking in the east, and the Japanese puppet army in front of them was also increasing rapidly. From a reinforced squadron of Japanese troops, at least one more squadron was added one after another. The puppet army has also more than doubled from more than 200 to one after another.

Faced with the danger of falling into the encirclement at any time, Li Ziyuan gritted his teeth. Leaving one company on the spot to guard the other directions, he commanded the rest of the troops and launched a counterattack on the flank of the Japanese puppet army besieging them head-on. There was no way to frighten or defeat the Japanese puppet army in front of them, and the two companies that had been stuck in front of them would not be able to withdraw at all.