Later battles proved that this puppet army was well-armed, and that there were a lot of diehards in it. Even at critical moments, dare to fight bayonets. Previously, He Sanliang said that after Luxi surrendered to the enemy, Wang's puppet Second Front Army, which was transferred to Jinnan to fight, had very strong combat effectiveness.

Li Ziyuan was a little undeniable, and he didn't feel that his combat strength exceeded that of the Jin Sui army too much. But after the puppet army fought, Li Ziyuan still thought that the combat effectiveness of this puppet army in northern Henan was still stronger than the so-called Wang puppet Second Front Army unit that he encountered when he broke through the blockade line of the Japanese puppet army.

This is a more objective evaluation made by Li Ziyuan after fighting this puppet army. Moreover, this puppet army does not care whether it is the Eighth Route Army or the troops in Chongqing, as long as the Japanese army issues a combat order, it will be attacked. This is in sharp contrast to the ordinary puppet army fighting against the Chongqing army, either shirking or fearing to move forward.

If you rely on the village to hold on, not to mention the troops led by Zhang Zijian, even Li Ziyuan's troops are all added together, I am afraid that they are all a hard bone to gnaw. Now Li Ziyuan analyzes that the scattered garrison of this puppet army is undoubtedly a lucky thing for Zhang Zijian's operation, but it also buries the passivity behind.

The puppet army in Xiyaogou is mainly a baggage force with relatively poor combat effectiveness and a lack of weapons. The real combat unit was only one infantry company and one infantry squad of the Japanese army. The real combat unit of this puppet army is not in Xiyaogou Village, but is stationed within more than ten square kilometers of the surrounding area.

Zhang Zijian didn't find out about these changes in the surrounding enemy situation, so he hastily launched a battle. Of course, if he moves fast enough, it's not impossible to completely succeed. It's just that this guy is too greedy, and in the face of the large number of military supplies piled up in Xiyaogou Village, he wants to serve a pot.

During the operation, although he took the lead in touching the village, solved several sentries of the puppet army, and directly at the same time as Zhang Zijian's action, he cooperated with the platoon of the reconnaissance company that captured all the baggage troops of the puppet army and several officers without firing a single shot, and he successfully disarmed the baggage troops of the puppet army.

But in the follow-up development, it was discovered by the Japanese squad with a high vigilance. This Japanese squad was stationed with them, after the two platoons of the puppet army discovered the sneak attack on the Eighth Road. Immediately concentrated all the forces and launched a counterattack against Zhang Zijian, who was in action.

Fortunately, although Zhang Zijian was a little hasty, the preparation for the strain was still sufficient. Moreover, although this Japanese puppet army reacted quickly, it was scattered and stationed in several courtyards. When the Japanese puppet army launched a counterattack, Zhang Zijian concentrated all the machine guns, and a dense burst of bullets knocked them back.

But the Japanese puppet army that was beaten back, after discovering that things were not good. immediately retracted the two courtyards, relying on these two typical houses in the southeast of Jin, as well as the courtyards to rely on desperate resistance. The baggage units of the puppet army were successfully disarmed, but the two platoons of the puppet army that the Japanese army leaned against them were a hard nut to crack.

Especially without the cooperation of artillery fire, it is not an easy task to deal with these Japanese puppet troops who are cowering in two courtyards. Fortunately, there was only one squad of the Japanese army, together with two platoon puppet army combat units, which were blocked by him with firepower. As long as he didn't disturb his sports things, Zhang Zijian didn't have to destroy them.

Before leaving, Li Ziyuan told him to fight and collect quickly, and Zhang Zijian still remembered it clearly. At present, compared to these Japanese puppet troops, the most important thing is to snatch and transport the materials as much as possible. As for those remnants of the Japanese puppet army, as long as you don't make trouble for yourself, just watch them.

But his greedy actions affected the efficiency of his actions. Xiyaogou not only stored a batch of materials, weapons and ammunition captured by the Japanese army in Lingchuan, but also the only central army unit in the three armies of Linxian that was originally stationed in Lingchuan. There are also some ammunition for the Japanese army, as well as a batch of canned food and other supplies.

Although there were not many supplies for the Japanese army, there was a quantity of gasoline and flour that were important for the Japanese army's operations. Another batch of mountain artillery shells was also needed by the Japanese army. The most important thing is that a batch of penicillin captured by the Japanese army in Lingchuan, as well as a batch of American-made medicines, are also stored here.

Because the Japanese themselves could not mass-produce penicillin, this antibiotic was extremely important for the Japanese army. Although the quantity of this batch of penicillin is not large, the Japanese army attaches far more importance than other materials. The real goal of the squad transferred by the Japanese army is to protect this batch of medicines.

Although he didn't know that Xiyaogou had stored so many good things, he was not so greedy for Li Ziyuan. Too many weapons and ammunition are also a burden, and even if you grab them all, you can't carry them all with you. Of course, you can't stay and let the Japanese puppet army fight you. If you can't take it away, just blow up the excess.

Li Ziyuan asked Zhang Zijian's first priority to snatch out a batch of military uniforms from Linxian County captured by the Japanese army here. But after Zhang Zijian saw this batch of supplies, he planned to take them away as much as possible. As a result, the troops with a large number of supplies captured a number of trucks, and no one could drive them, so they could only pour the captured gasoline on the spot and burn it.

There were a small number of mules, horses, and carts to work with, and the speed was simply not fast. Moreover, Zhang Zijian was not arrogant enough to take away the dozens of barrels of gasoline and more than 300 bags of flour that were seized. Let the common people push all the gasoline outside the village, pile it together with all the flour that could not be taken away, put it on a fire and burn it all, and only bring dozens of bags of flour.

It's not that he is stingy and reluctant to distribute this flour to the common people. It's that even the poorest people in Xiyaogou don't dare to collect this flour. You guys touched the devil's buttocks, patted their butts and left, but the common people still have to live here. If the devil finds out that someone's furniture has hidden their flour, they will not blink an eye when the time comes.

Even if the devil doesn't pursue it, if those traitors know about it, they will not die and will have to peel off their skin. For these poor people, sorghum and cornmeal are not much different from white flour, they are all to fill their stomachs. But if your life is gone, it's useless to fill your stomach no matter how full it is.

To be precise, in addition to fifty or sixty bags of flour, as well as a batch of canned food and biscuits, most of the materials that Zhang Zijian took away were weapons and ammunition, and of course, Li Ziyuan still had to bring all the military uniforms he wanted. As for the rest of the supplies, all the ones that couldn't be taken away were burned.

But even then, he took too much with him. A Type 24 heavy machine gun costs tens of kilograms, which is not much lighter than the Devil's Type 92 heavy machine gun. Coupled with a large number of military uniforms, the large piles of captured carts are not to mention. All the cadres and soldiers carried a lot of supplies on their shoulders.

Of course, those puppet soldiers who were disarmed by him, whether you are an officer or a soldier, at least carry a bag of noodles. If you look a little stronger, the heavy machine gun will be yours. But even so, the large amount of materials he carried made Zhang Zijian's movements seem extremely slow.

Here he is burning and windy, but there are still some Japanese puppet soldiers in the village who are defending it. Whether it is the puppet army or the Japanese army, they all know that these materials will lose their heads if they are lost. At least you have to chase after the makeup, otherwise there is really no way to explain when you go back. As soon as Zhang Zijian retreated here, the Japanese puppet army over there chased him out.

Especially the Japanese squad, when they saw that Zhang Zijian was running with so many supplies, they immediately counterattacked, trying to drag down this eight-way force. Even if you can't recapture the supplies for the time being, you can at least buy some time for reinforcements to arrive. As a result, Zhang Zijian, who was a little careless, almost didn't suffer a small loss.

If it weren't for the machine gun company commander who cooperated with him, most of them would have been withdrawn. Set up a few French-made heavy machine guns and block the exit of the village. The Japanese puppet army that will launch a counterattack, mainly the puppet army of those two platoons, directly killed and wounded more than half. So that this Japanese puppet army did not dare to pursue, and it was only then that all the retreats were smoothly.

But a large amount of materials made Zhang Zijian's movement unusually slow. Even the commander of the heavy machine gun company after the break repelled the counterattack of the remaining Japanese puppet army in the village with intensive machine gun fire. But the waste of time is difficult to make up. The surrounding Japanese puppet army has already heard the wind and moved, and quickly sent reinforcements to the front line of Xiyaogou.

Dozens of barrels of gasoline were ignited, which was undoubtedly quite a blockbuster*. Zhang Zijian, who was busy carrying supplies, was not in the mood to pour out all the gasoline. Instead, after opening a few buckets and pouring them on the flour, he lit a fire. Those dozens of barrels of gasoline came directly to an explosion.

Coupled with the fierce fighting in the village, the dense gunfire could be heard clearly for more than ten miles. The surrounding Japanese puppet army still can't hear it? After receiving the news of the attack on Xiyaogou, the puppet army commander who led the team immediately panicked. Immediately brought troops over to reinforce them, and after discovering that the sneak attackers had already slipped away, they didn't care about anything and pursued them all the way.

Zhang Zijian had just retreated to the place where Li Ziyuan met him, and the puppet army behind had already gathered the main force and rushed over. After preparing to replenish in Xiyaogou, the Japanese artillery and a squadron of guards who went north to participate in the battle, in a hurry to recapture the supplies, even took the initiative to join in without the request of the puppet army.

The puppet army commander knew very well in his heart what kind of outcome he would face if he couldn't find this batch of supplies. Therefore, after catching up, it can be said that he worked quite hard, not only showed all his family background, but even organized the troops to launch an extremely rare group charge.

Under the cover of the Japanese artillery fire and their own artillery, he didn't care about this bit of family wealth at all, and the Japanese would not replenish him. This old man, who was eager to atone for his crimes, personally led the overseer team behind the puppet army charge, and personally sat in the battle oversee. In several unfavorable attacks, two platoon commanders were shot with their own hands.

As for the Japanese artillery, they also knew that if they did not recapture the shells, they would not be able to rush to the designated place to participate in the battle as ordered. In terms of the Japanese system, this will undoubtedly be punished quite severely. Therefore, after discovering that the materials were seized, they also worked very hard to dispatch artillery to provide fire support.

Fortunately, although the reserve of shells is gone, they still have half a base of shells left, and they can support it for a while if they save a little. As long as you use firepower to defeat the blocked Eighth Road, there may not be no hope of regaining supplies. Of course, the Japanese infantry came more to supervise the battle, and as for the operational matters, it would be good for them to provide fire cover.

But this Japanese puppet army, which was bent on regaining supplies, did not expect that this Eighth Route was not only extremely tenacious. After seizing the weapons and equipment stored in Xiyaogou, especially the ammunition, the firepower was a little unbelievable. Organized many strong attacks, and after several hours, they did not break the opponent's resistance.