For these Japanese troops, it was not only the spare ammunition that was lost, but also almost all the firepower above the light machine guns, including the heavy machine guns they carried. Coupled with the consumption of the previous return hits, the only remaining part of the crooked handle and the Type 96 light machine gun are also facing a situation where there are no bullets available. Even the ammunition they have at hand can't guarantee a counterattack

There were also several artillery pieces, which were blown up without even unloading the gun trucks. The Japanese army's tactical use is indeed quite good, but it is inseparable from the fire support of various light artillery. In the tactics of the Japanese infantry, whether it was the suppression of the fire of the mountain artillery. Infantry artillery incoming fire, destroying the opponent's heavy machine gun fire.

Cover your heavy machine gun deployment and suppress the opponent's infantry fire and light machine guns, ensuring that the grenadier can accurately destroy the opponent's light machine guns and the remaining heavy machine guns. Among the infantry combat units of the Japanese army, the echelon of firepower is very clear. The brigade has infantry artillery and 37 flat-fire guns, and in wartime, it is necessary to strengthen mountain artillery and mortars.

The weight requirements of the 92 infantry guns and the 37 flat-fire guns of the Japanese army were very demanding, and they were all designed to be able to keep up with the speed of the infantry's attack. Even the mountain artillery to which its wing, the mountain artillery wing at the division level, can keep up with the speed of the infantry attack when necessary. In addition to the Japanese army's habitual tactics of interspersing, detouring and infiltrating, this ensured their superiority on the Chinese battlefield.

If this firepower configuration is transferred, the Japanese army will not be able to bear it either. It is true that the Japanese army has been systematically trained in white-knuckle warfare, but the white-knuckle warfare of the Japanese army is not easy to fight. Unless the infantry enters the enemy's position, the opponent is still resisting. Otherwise, what the Japanese army could solve with firepower and tactics would definitely not have been with bayonets.

Now that the Japanese have lost all their artillery, heavy machine guns, and almost all their ammunition, they are not stupid enough to actually touch a stone with an egg. It is true that many of the lower-level commanders of the Japanese army are dead-eyed, but no matter how dead-eyed they are, they will not hold their heads and hit the bullets.

Even if the Japanese army was beaten like thunder, looking at the direction of Li Ziyuan's retreat, he did not dare to pursue it. On the contrary, I was worried about the eight roads on the other side, and I found out that there was not much ammunition left in my own and turned around and chased after you. Therefore, after rushing out, he directly disengaged from Li Ziyuan's department, retreated more than ten miles east in one go, and almost withdrew into Hubei County.

In fact, this Japanese army did not know, although when counting the trophies, Li Ziyuan also found that there was little spare ammunition left in the bullet box on the corpse of the Japanese army. The average number of rounds per person is between 10 and 15, and the maximum is only 25 rounds including bullets in the chamber. But when it was already decided to retreat, he still did not give the order to pursue.

For Li Ziyuan, if the Japanese army did not break through, after discovering this, he might try to annihilate the Japanese army. But now that the Japanese army has regrouped, he doesn't want to be bitten back by the Japanese army when he has already taken advantage of it.

Although it is said that the tiger will not die but will suffer from it, the problem is that this tiger has not yet reached the point where it can completely lose its teeth. What's more, there is also a group of tigers around. The truth of poor Kou Mo chasing is very clear to Li Ziyuan at this time. Even if they caught up with the encirclement, there was no possibility that these Japanese troops would surrender. When the time comes, it will still consume a lot of time and energy.

At the moment, there is not much ammunition left in this unit, and it is not completely exhausted. The Japanese army, which lacked ammunition, was not a toothless tiger. Since I have taken advantage of enough of the current advantages, there is no need to continue to delay in this unfavorable terrain. So after he left the Japanese army confused, he patted his ass and left happily.

And the Japanese army behind him never understood that it was the Eighth Route that attacked him? Such a dense firepower has never been experienced when he was fighting against Lin County. However, the opponent of thousands of people brought such a large number of casualties to himself, and the commander who led the team was also killed, so he had to find an explanation.

As soon as several Japanese officers led the team were combined, it was better not to report according to the number of troops, but to report according to the density of firepower. If it is reported truthfully, it is another matter whether the superiors believe it or not. If you send yourself to continue the pursuit, it will be really fatal. In the eyes of the superiors, the Japanese army, which has always been a brigade, can defeat the Chinese army by one division.

Normally, artillery and heavy machine guns are still there, but if so, there is no problem. But now it's still like this, it's really too bad. As far as the real situation is concerned, it is already very good that people do not pursue themselves. It would be too much fun to order yourself to pursue them.

Judging from the number of machine guns in these Eight Routes, at least one brigade besieging oneself will report according to the strength of one brigade of the Eighth Route. The question, of course, is how to report this information after the radio station is blown up. Fortunately, after hearing the sound of guns and cannons here, the Japanese puppet army in Hubei County hesitated, but also sent reinforcements.

Seeing the tragic situation on the battlefield, these Japanese puppet soldiers had evil desires in their hearts, and kept patting their chests and shouting about luck. He also used the radio in his hand to truthfully report the tragic situation of the Japanese army attacked. After receiving the battle report that the Japanese army had been attacked, the regimental headquarters of the 36th Division was shocked. can only cancel his original mission of pursuing Li Ziyuan's subordinates, and let him return to Hubei County on the spot to rest.

Although the opponent dared to be bold, he was a lone soldier, and he dared to attack Changzhi City. But that was when the main forces of the 36th Division were swept in the eastern region. But at present, more than 1,000 Japanese troops have been attacked in the plain area, and such a large casualty in a short period of time has also made the senior commanders of the Japanese army shocked, but also constantly strengthened their attention to Li Ziyuan.

With a telegram urging all departments to speed up the return of reinforcements, they flew from Changzhi City to the various units of the Japanese army. The Japanese puppet army's actions were already very fast before, and the speed was even faster. In order to transport back the Japanese troops in the eastern mountains as soon as possible, the 36th Division even detained some trucks belonging to the First Army that participated in the southeast Jin Raid.

There was no way to do this for the 36th Division, and their trucks were lost half of them this time. The number of trucks attached to the Japanese division and regiment level is not much, and Li Ziyuan was reimbursed more than 50 at once, and the already weak transportation force is even weaker. If the mobilized troops had arrived on foot, the corpses of the 36th Division would have been cold long ago.

What's more, it is necessary to block this eight roads in the Changzhi Basin and prevent them from flowing back to the mountainous areas. The blockade had to be constructed ahead of schedule, even though some of the forces had already been used as a blockade. Judging from this attack, the forces of the blockade line in all directions have not only not been reduced, but have also been greatly strengthened. Li Ziyuan startled the snake and startled a group of hungry wolves.

Under the circumstance that the speed of troop mobilization must be accelerated, the 36th Division has no other choice. If they are sent back to the mountains by this eight roads, it will be much more difficult to solve them. In addition to speeding up the mobilization of troops by all means, the 36th Division also sent a large number of plainclothes troops to cooperate with the planes dispatched to search for Li Ziyuan's headquarters everywhere.

Compared with the Japanese army, which is currently in the limelight, Li Ziyuan found that he had taken advantage of this battle, but the consequences were also not good. This ambush battle, which lasted for half an hour, allowed Li Ziyuan to achieve great results at a very small cost. But for Li Ziyuan, he never had a chance to set up an ambush after this fighter.

A large number of Japanese puppet troops who quickly returned from the Ludong area, when searching for Li Ziyuan's headquarters, adopted a multi-way approach of holding together and moving together, so that Li Ziyuan had the feeling that he had nowhere to eat. No matter which direction he hits, the surrounding Japanese puppet army will quickly support, which makes Li Ziyuan unable to capture the fighter at all.

At the same time that the fighters could not be captured, the idea of retreating to the eastern mountains was not realized for a long time. In fact, Li Ziyuan also knew that after this battle, he had to evacuate Changzhi. However, whether he led the team to move to Ludong or Hubei, he found that the Japanese puppet army that had returned from the mountainous area in the eastern part of Hubei had already deployed a tight blockade line in all the surrounding areas.

In particular, on the route of withdrawing to the old base area in the eastern part of Hubei, in the western plain area of Hubei, the Japanese puppet army deployed more than 1,000 Japanese troops and nearly 4,000 puppet troops. In almost every village in the western part of Hubei, a large number of Japanese puppet troops were stationed. A large number of migrant workers were also mobilized and forced to dig two blockade ditches in the western part of Hubei.

In other words, even if Li Ziyuan broke through the blockade line of the Japanese puppet army, it would be difficult to break through each blockade ditch with a width of five meters and a depth of two and a half meters. What's more, there is also the Japanese puppet army, which has an absolute advantage in strength and firepower. In order to block Li Ziyuan's headquarters and eliminate them around Changzhi, the Japanese army mobilized pseudo garrisons in more than ten counties around Changzhi.

In order to transfer these puppet garrisons to Changzhi as soon as possible, the 36th Division borrowed a large number of trucks from the surrounding troops. Almost on the third day after Li Ziyuan entered the periphery of Changzhi, a large number of Japanese puppet troops were in place one after another. In particular, the Japanese puppet army that swept through the Ludong Mountains almost finished the ambush battle with Li Ziyuan, and arrived at the designated area one after another that night.

After Li Ziyuan fought the ambush battle, he entered the western part of Hubei. Before he had time to cross the western plain of Hubei, he found that a large number of Japanese puppet troops appeared in front of him, blocking his eastward route. Li Ziyuan had no choice but to give up the original plan and lead his troops back to Changzhi. Immediately move quickly to the north to avoid encountering a large number of Japanese puppet troops.

With the Japanese puppet army mobilized by the Japanese army in place one after another, and the rapid return of a large number of Japanese puppet troops in Ludong, the situation in which Li Ziyuan was located deteriorated significantly and rapidly. At the junction of Ludong and Changzhi, the blockade is extremely tight and cannot advance eastward. After the Japanese puppet army arrived, they quickly began to encircle Li Ziyuan from the east, west, and south directions.

Even a division of the vanguard of the puppet Second Front Army, which had just arrived in the southeast of Jinjin, was transferred north by the Japanese First Army to the periphery of Changzhi. The Japanese army used it as the main force and cooperated with the pursuit of the Japanese army. The puppet Jin Southern Jianguo Army and the mobilized county garrisons were deployed in the western plains of Changzhi and Hubei, as well as in the areas bordering Changzhi in Ludong.

After learning that the Eight Roads of this pursuit were after defeating the Eight Roads of the teaching group that he had worked so hard to manage. The boss of Wang's puppet Second Front Army also didn't care about the persuasion of his subordinates not to be too stiff with the Eighth Road, so that they could meet each other in the future. He personally gave a death order to the commander of the vanguard division that he must catch up and completely eliminate this eight-way force.

This old man took the lead in entering a division of the vanguard of the southeast of Jin, and under his extremely severe urging, it can be said that he took the lead. Of the three regiments to which it belonged, except for one regiment that remained in the rear to protect the supply line, the remaining two regiments were even more active than the Japanese army. Li Ziyuan defeated his teaching group, but it was the same as his life.