When the sky was dark again, Li Ziyuan led his troops to use the cover of night to turn out of this mountain forest and enter the Shangdang Basin, which suddenly opened up a lot. After entering the plains, Li Ziyuan did not take the method of forced march this time. Instead, he avoided all the villages along the way, and led his troops to search cautiously all the way while marching towards the outskirts of Pingchuan

After entering the plains, Li Ziyuan's caution also brought a certain reward. Just when Li Ziyuan's department, which was interspersed diagonally into the hilly area to the east of Pingchuan, was less than three miles away from his destination through a road, Li Ziyuan's department almost collided head-on with a patrolling puppet army.

After receiving the news that Liu Lianming had discovered a reinforcement squad of the puppet army, Li Ziyuan, who did not expect that after he made a big fuss in Pingchuan Town last time, the patrol area of the puppet army had expanded a lot, and he couldn't help but be slightly surprised. He didn't expect that such a remote area had already been included in the target of the puppet army's patrol.

It's just that in this mountainous plain, it is too late to avoid this puppet army patrol now. Li Ziyuan didn't say a word, and immediately took the troops who were ready for battle and quickly hid in the fields on both sides of the road, but Li Ziyuan was not ready to shoot. Shooting here is not a good option.

Strictly give the order, even if the puppet army in front of him steps on the top of his head, he is not allowed to move. Li Ziyuan closed the safety of the shell gun in his hand and exposed the dagger. And a small team member beside him also took out the dagger that Li Ziyuan specially asked Chang Juan to find the blacksmith to forge it.

However, the vigilance of this puppet army is quite high, and it is not only equipped with multiple flashlights when patrolling, but also the distance between them is also very open. The guy in the middle with the flower trap kept his fingers on the trigger. Fortunately, although these guys brought flashlights, their eyes were still staring at the sides of the road, not at the ridge under their feet.

After this group of puppet soldiers entered Li Ziyuan's ambush circle, Li Ziyuan was the first to rush out. The dagger in his left hand stabbed into the neck of the guy with the flower trap, and the thumb of his right hand reached into the trigger of the gun in the guy's hand, jamming the trigger of the weapon in his hand.

At the same time as Li Ziyuan launched his action, a small group of all the people also jumped out. The bayonet in his hand either stabbed into the body of the puppet army, or directly on their necks, disarming a squad of the puppet army cleanly, eliminating five and catching six.

However, when it came to action, there was a little problem. No one thought that when Li Ziyuan and a small team member cleanly solved the puppet military squad that came out to patrol. There was also a platoon commander who led the team behind, but for some unknown reason, he was more than ten meters behind and was left behind.

The platoon commander of the puppet army, who was about to light a cigarette, saw a few people suddenly strung out of the ridges on the side of the road, and eliminated all his subordinates in a short time. I was so frightened that I forgot to shoot, and ran back as soon as I threw the matches and cigarettes. This guy appeared quite unexpectedly, and almost everyone was caught off guard.

By the time the last team members wanted to do it, it was too late. Just when the team member who felt that he had missed his hand picked up the gun and wanted to shoot. Guo Laosan, who didn't know when he appeared, shook his hand, and the puppet platoon commander who had just run a few meters away seemed to be frozen. After a pause, he fell to the ground with a thud, kicked his leg a few times and stopped moving.

After asking Guan Li to quickly interrogate several captured puppet soldiers, Li Ziyuan glared at the missing team member and hurried to the corpse of the puppet platoon leader in a few steps. With the help of the flashlight brought by the puppet army, I found that this puppet army officer was sticking a palm-length thing like the tip of a red tasseled spear on his neck.

Seeing this thing, Li Ziyuan casually took off the weapon on this guy's body, and then pulled out this strange thing. After taking a closer look and finding nothing famous, he walked back to Guo Laosan's side. However, when he handed this thing back to him, Li Ziyuan thanked him very solemnly.

Regarding Li Ziyuan's gratitude, Guo Laosan still had his usual indifferent expression, shook his head and said nothing. And his reaction, Li Ziyuan only smiled slightly, and didn't say anything more. Now he doesn't have much time to think about other things. But Li Ziyuan believed that he was grateful, and Guo Laosan listened to it.

casually threw the two packs of cigarettes that were turned out of the unlucky guy to Guan Li, and threw the shell gun to Zeng Shenghou. Li Ziyuan was more concerned about the results of the interrogation of the puppet army prisoners. And although those puppet soldiers were in front of the bayonets, they could say whatever they had when they poured beans on a bamboo tube. But the information they provided made Li Ziyuan feel very unoptimistic.

After the last time they made a big fuss in Pingchuan Town, the Japanese puppet army in Pingchuan fully strengthened their vigilance. Not only the cordon outside the town, but also extended a few hundred meters outward. Groups of fortifications have also been set up in several of the original unfortified sites in the eastern hills, and the deployment of troops in these fortifications has been strengthened. At the same time, the range of patrols and the interval between patrols have been adjusted.

At present, the deployment of the Japanese puppet army in Pingchuan Town has been greatly adjusted, and the strength of the puppet garrison originally stationed in the town is left with only one artillery team left except for the squad that served as a guard by Wang Tieshi's side. The rest of the puppet garrison troops were basically all transferred to the periphery.

In addition to the original strength, the Japanese troops in the town have recently transferred a dissatisfied squad from Hubei County, as well as two action groups of plainclothes teams. The defense of the town was now in charge of the Japanese army. As for the puppet garrison, with the cooperation of a small number of Japanese troops, they made every effort to defend the perimeter of Pingchuan Town.

At the same time, the scope of external patrols, as well as the density of patrols, will be expanded. When the puppet army patrols, it is always cooperated by a Japanese soldier. The reason why they came out on patrol alone today was because of the Japanese soldier who was monitoring their patrol, because they were not responsible for leading the team because of diarrhea.

However, the specific deployment of the puppet garrison on the periphery of Pingchuan Town, as well as the deployment of the Japanese puppet army in the town, because these guys are just ordinary puppet soldiers, and they don't know much. All they can know is the direction they are responsible for, and the general content.

Despite a few puppet soldiers, not much information was provided. But from these relatively limited information, Li Ziyuan can still judge that the strength of the Japanese puppet army in Pingchuan Town has been strengthened. The most important thing is that the increase in the Japanese puppet army this time is actually dominated by the Japanese army, which is even more unexpected to him.

A disgruntled Japanese squad, even with only one rifle group and a light machine gun, is not an object to be taken lightly. Compared to Zeng Sheng, who got ten Jin-made rifles and a flower mechanism, and was a little excited. Facing the change of the enemy's situation, Li Ziyuan had an idea in his heart at the moment.

After signaling his subordinates to find a pit to bury the bodies of several puppet soldiers, and tied up these puppet army prisoners tightly, stripped off their clothes and plugged their underwear in their mouths, and threw them in a depression. Li Ziyuan summoned Guan Li, Chang Juan, and Zeng Sheng and his instructor together, and quickly told the plan in his heart.

Li Ziyuan used a few bullets to show the general deployment of the Japanese puppet army in Pingchuan Town on the ground, and then said to Zeng Sheng: "Old Zeng, now the Japanese army has driven all the puppet troops to the periphery to garrison, which is a good thing for us. As a result, the strength density of the Japanese puppet army in the entire Pingchuan town greatly decreased. ”

"In particular, the Japanese army also had to take care of the security of the railway line west of Pingchuan, as well as the rebuilt military warehouse, plus they also had to send people to monitor the puppet army. There is basically nothing left of the forces that can be mobilized within it. Even with the addition of this dissatisfied squad that was transferred later, its total number of troops is quite limited. And there are two squads of the puppet army in Pingchuan Town, one should be Wang Tieshi's guard squad. ”

"This team is what he carries with him to save his life. As long as we don't knock them down, he won't be able to move this team lightly. As for the other puppet army, it is estimated that all that is left in the entire Pingchuan town is his artillery team. In this way, the mobile strength of the Japanese puppet army in the entire Pingchuan Town can be roughly judged. ”

"The devil drove the main force of the puppet army to the periphery of Pingchuan Town, although it increased the garrison force on the periphery of Pingchuan Town, but also limited these puppet troops to various points on the periphery, but weakened their own mobile forces. Although it has increased the difficulty of our infiltration, it has also brought us a certain opportunity to sneak attack to a certain extent. ”

"My whole plan is to have Shi Jin, who is familiar with the terrain, cooperate with you. You take your troops and rush to the hilly terrain east of Pingchuan Town. When encountering a patrol of the Japanese puppet army along the way, it is still the old rule not to shoot as much as possible. He who can use a knife must not use a gun. ”

"You should try to touch the periphery of the Japanese puppet army's fortifications in the east, but don't rush to attack, and hide secretly first. I took my troops and detoured back to the outskirts of Pingchuan Town from the south, avoiding the Japanese puppet army as much as possible and infiltrating into Pingchuan Town. ”

"If I don't fire a gun on my side, don't do anything but approach them as stealthily as possible. If a shot goes off from my side, you have to finish off the fortifications in front of you as quickly as possible. But don't be too greedy, just make a move. ”

"Your task is to attract the attention of the puppet army east of Pingchuan and contain their main force. At the same time, with a force of troops, lay an ambush on your flank. If the puppet army from other strongholds is reinforced, they will concentrate their firepower to knock out a batch of them. But beware, this puppet army is very well equipped. Engage them in melee combat as much as possible and don't let their heavy machine guns bite them. ”

"The devil's own lack of troops, and their distrust of the puppet army from the bottom of their bones, make them themselves scatter their forces. As long as we seize this fighter and give full play to the strengths of our troops in close combat and night combat, we can completely catch them off guard. ”

Speaking of this, Li Ziyuan looked at Chang Juan beside him and said, "In addition to Lao Shi, Instructor Chang also acts with you. In addition, Lao Shi knows the location of the gun and ammunition I buried last time. Let him take you to get the ammunition out and replenish your troops. ”

"Lao Zeng, you have to remember one thing, now is not the time to feel sorry for bullets. Your movements must be fierce and your firepower must be swift. As long as you can entangle the main force of the puppet army, it is worth paying some extra price. Lao Zeng, don't tell me, your troops still need my help to deal with some puppet troops. ”