Regarding Li Ziyuan's insistence, Ma Yongcheng hesitated for a moment, and finally said: "You are the military commander, and the determination on the battlefield is still based on you." But I have reservations about your decision. In any case, I still think that it is not a good choice to break through to Huguan now. It's just that if you insist, I can only show my support. ”

"Still, I want you to think about it carefully. After all, the distance between Huguan and the battlefield in Linxian County is too close, and it is not necessarily a good choice for us to break through there. Lao Li, there are some things you can't just look at the surface, the water over there is deep. ”

"Two separate motley armies, a central lineage, and an empty headquarters are themselves a mess. Coupled with our four divisions, as well as the Japanese puppet army that is currently besieging Linxian, the two countries are extremely chaotic. Let's go there, it's easy to be pushed to the cusp. ”

"And Lao He supports you, I feel that there are reasons other than military problems. As for what part of the reason is, I haven't figured it out yet. Lao Li, that's all I can say. In a word, how to bring the troops out as completely as possible is what you, the military commander, should consider the most. But there are certain aspects of things that cannot be left unconsidered. ”

Ma Yongcheng's stubbornness, Li Ziyuan could only scratch his head helplessly. But fortunately, although it was not completely explained, after all, Ma Yongcheng was not objecting at the moment. Now that there is unity of opinion in the regiment, the next step should be to decide how to fight this battle well.

Li Ziyuan has always been vigorous and resolute in execution, and after unifying his opinions, he took the third battalion as the second echelon to guard the Japanese pursuers behind him. The 1st Battalion and the 2nd Battalion were temporarily combined into a reinforced battalion and deployed, carefully touching the blockade line formed by the Japanese puppet army using the Huguan to Changzhi Highway passing through Huguan. Liu Lianming's reconnaissance company had already been scattered by him in advance.

When Li Ziyuan led his troops to touch the periphery of the blockade line built by the Japanese army at the junction of the two counties. Holding a telescope and looking at the Japanese puppet army on the road below the mountain, his brows furrowed a little. The number of Japanese troops under the mountain is not large, but the number of puppet troops is quite a lot.

These puppet armies are all Hanyang-made rifles, Liao 13 rifles, and the light and heavy machine guns are all Czech or Belgian light machine guns. The two are a little strange in appearance, they should be legal heavy machine guns, although the roasted blue of the gun body is about to fall off, but it still can't be underestimated.

Except for heavy machine guns, these weapons are all standard equipment of the Chongqing army. Except for the two heavy machine guns that I had never seen, the caliber was not clear, and they were all weapons of seven or nine calibers. Unlike the general puppet army, the weapons equipped are very miscellaneous. In particular, the puppet army in Shanxi is basically based on Jin-made rifles.

Although the equipment is somewhat miscellaneous, the caliber is basically unified. Although it is mainly made in Hanyang, the number of Liao 13 rifles used by the Northeast Army is not a few. This is the fucking puppet army on that side, if it weren't for the Japanese army, I would have thought I had seen the regular army on the Chongqing side. Even the military uniforms and flags on his body are the same as those of Chongqing.

Compared with the puppet army in Shanxi, except for the different colors, the style of the military uniform is similar to that of the Japanese army. In addition to the apricot yellow triangular cloth on the military flag, which reads the words "peace * national salvation", these puppet troops are almost the regular army of Chongqing, and they are also the appearance of the Central Army. Seeing the puppet army under the mountain, Li Ziyuan's brows furrowed quite deeply.

Looking at Li Ziyuan's frowning brows, He Sanliang, who was beside him, said: "Regiment commander, according to the results of Liu Lianming's previous reconnaissance, these puppet soldiers wearing military uniforms different from those of the garrison should be the troops of the former deputy commander-in-chief and guerrilla commander-in-chief of the Jicha Theater who defected to the Wang puppet regime last year and were recently transferred to Henan in Shandong. ”

"These puppet armies are not the miscellaneous puppet armies that are actually controlled by various units of the Japanese army on our side but have no unified command, and only obey the command of the Japanese army that controls their own troops. It is the so-called Central Army, which has an official establishment on Wang Puppet's side. Although they also had to obey the orders of the Japanese army, they were still dominated by Nanjing. ”

"Their hypocritical chairman has always regarded himself as the authentic heir of Mr. Nakayama. Although his puppet army used the name of the Peace Army, he did not copy the name of Chongqing. However, the flags, military uniforms, and establishment are all completely in accordance with the Chongqing side. ”

"Since this gentleman established the Wang puppet regime, perhaps because he has suffered enough of not having an army at hand, he has been attacking the miscellaneous army that has been excluded over there all day long. Send people to carry boxes of gold bars and the ocean to the generals at all levels on the front line. In particular, the Northwest Army and the Old Northeast Army, which were active behind enemy lines, were the focus of their poaching. ”

"When I was in the 40th Army, even as a small company commander, I received the present ocean sent from some quarters. And told me that as soon as I pulled my company over, I would immediately give a brigade number. Weapons and replenishment were provided by the Japanese army. I, the little company commander, have been wooed, let alone those commanders? ”

"Especially these motley armed forces who have been kicked behind enemy lines and sent guerrillas, poor jingle three times. They themselves don't have the two hits to survive in the eight ways, and they have to face the attacks of the little devils and the exclusion of their own people. The promised territory, the establishment and replenishment of weapons and equipment on the Nanjing side were very tempting to them. ”

"It is said that Linxian is poor, but fortunately, there is also a formal establishment, and although the military salary allocated by Chongqing is not enough, there is still a certain guarantee after all. The same is true in terms of weapons and ammunition, although there are some less, but there are more or less supplements. In addition, Mr. Pang made a lot of great contributions during the battle of Xuzhou, and Chongqing still didn't dare to go too far. ”

"There has been a delay in the allocation of military salaries and supplementary ammunition, and sometimes there are various reasons to withhold them, but basically they can still be guaranteed. Although I can't do anything else, I can barely eat enough. In fact, the miscellaneous cards among them are much worse than those in Lin County. ”

"Give you a small piece of land, and all the funds have to be raised by yourself. Basically, we have to figure out how to replenish weapons and ammunition. When I was in the Fortieth Army, I once took my company to guard the headquarters. I met this old colleague of Mr. Pang in the Northwest Army, and sent people to Linxian County to get some ammunition and funds. ”

It's just that Mr. Pang didn't have enough money at that time, and Chongqing was very stuck in this area, so he had to keep the little inventory on hand. In the end, he couldn't stand the soft grinding and hard bubbles, and partnered with the Tanglin thief of the New Fifth Army, who also lived in the Northwest Army, to get together some, and only then did he give 20,000 rounds of ammunition and 20 Hanyang-made rifles and 10 65 rifles. ”

"If you can't get the money, you will give two hundred taels of tobacco. This is still the Tanglin thief of the New Fifth Army, who was squeezed out of himself during the Central Plains War, when Mr. Sun gave him a siege in Bozhou. You must know that tobacco is an important source of wealth for him, and it will not be given away in vain. ”

"They all begged us, the motley army who was half-starved and half-fed themselves, which shows how difficult his situation is. Wang Pseudo gave the land and supplements, and expanded the establishment and guaranteed the funds, so it was strange that he was not moved. However, although that person was a traitor, he was a famous general in the Northwest Army, and he was very good at training. ”

"Commander, you have to be careful. I have heard that the combat effectiveness of this puppet army is very strong, and after the surrender to the enemy, the Wang puppet regime and the Japanese army tried to replenish them with a large number of weapons and ammunition in order to win over this army. Commander, we can't fight hard, so our losses will be great. ”

Hearing He Sanliang's words, Li Ziyuan looked at the sky, but instead of answering, he asked: "Old He, how far is the devil behind us from us now." If we don't shoot, can we hide here until the middle of the night? Grandma's, Tsuruta Numan is a bastard, and Lao Tzu didn't go to Japan to dig their family's ancestral grave, as for biting Lao Tzu so hard? ”

Through Liu Lianming's reconnaissance and capture, it has now been determined that the entire battle plan of the Japanese army was personally planned by the First Army after being sent to Nanyang and narrowly escaped from starvation on a tropical island in the South Pacific.

This old man not only sat in Changzhi before the Japanese army launched this sweep, but also formulated a battle plan for waiting for work at ease according to the entire plan of the First Army. He even did not hesitate to use his own army's senior staff officer to personally lead the troops before this battle, and rushed to Qiaokou and Luoma to sit in the town on the first night of Li Ziyuan's external attack.

In order to avoid the leakage of information, this guy can be described as painstaking. Not only did all the transfers be carried out after receiving Li Ziyuan's return to Hubei, but all of them were transferred by night. And took advantage of the martial law situation in Hubei after the Japanese army launched a sweep to tightly seal the news. The puppet armies at all levels have already started even here, and they don't even know about the actions of the Japanese army.

As for the moment, this old brother who hated Li Ziyuan to the bone personally led part of the Japanese army to pursue Li Ziyuan all the way. If you don't screw Li Ziyuan's head off with your own hands, that means that you will never give up. This old man's hatred for Li Ziyuan is not as simple as hatred to the bone.

Indeed, Li Ziyuan did not dig his family's ancestral grave. But the problem is that he has repeatedly suffered big losses at the hands of Li Ziyuan, and even Li Ziyuan attacked Changzhi City, sent the ammunition depot hoarded by the 36th Division in Changzhi to the sky, and also gave the former division commander of the 36th Division a stroke.

The intelligence staff officer of the 36th Division, who was pushed out as a scapegoat, was sent to the most dangerous and painful battlefield in the South Pacific. Not only did he catch malaria there, but he almost didn't starve to death. From weeds to all kinds of birds and animals, and even human flesh, there was nothing he had not eaten.

Although this old man was evacuated from the island that became a nightmare for the entire Japanese Army in January this year. But the painful experience in the South Pacific battlefield made this old man send him to the South Pacific battlefield with one hand, one is the former division commander of the 36th Division who pushed him out as a scapegoat, and the other is Li Ziyuan, who can be said to hate him to the core.

It's just that the first person is a lieutenant general, not to mention that he has a stroke now, even if he doesn't have a stroke, he can't help others. So he vented all his anger on Li Ziyuan, as well as on the Ludong Military Division where Li Ziyuan was located. Especially Li Ziyuan, it is difficult to understand the hatred in his heart if he doesn't crush his bones and scatter ashes.

After determining that the person behind him who was biting the Japanese army all the way to the death was the one who was transferred away and then transferred back, Li Ziyuan knew that he might be very difficult to fight this battle. But it was so difficult that he hadn't imagined it before.