In fact, Li Ziyuan, including He Sanliang, who was born in Linxian County, doesn't know yet. Although the Japanese army's attack on Linxian County has only been launched for a few days. However, the war in Linxian County has gradually come to an end due to some specific reasons.

Just as He Sanliang was worried about, after being surrounded by the rapidly advancing Japanese army. Under the temptation of the favorable conditions offered by the Japanese army, the one who had been beaten into a bare-bones commander since the Battle of the Four Horses and Sun was not until the Anti-Japanese War was rejuvenated, and a team was pulled up by absorbing the old troops and stragglers.

Since the day he started, he has always wanted to have a territory, and he regards the army as his lifeline. In order to feed his own miscellaneous army, even the Qing Dongling dared to steal the Tanglin thieves. After the Wang puppet regime promised to replenish its armament and expand its strength, it surrendered with his New Fifth Army and took refuge in Nanjing.

After the army defected to the enemy, although it did not take part in the attack on the rest of the troops. However, taking advantage of his familiarity with the terrain and the rest of the defense areas, he sent personnel to lead the way for the attacking Japanese army, and cooperated with the Japanese army to attack a division of the 27th Army close to his station, resulting in the division being defeated at the first time.

At the same time, after the unit surrendered to the enemy, it surrendered the most important link of the entire Linxian defense area. The triangular defense system of the Linxian side is completely disrupted. It also enabled the attacking Japanese army to quickly pass through his defense area and complete the division of the various departments of Linxian County in the first time.

With the cooperation of this old man who is familiar with the terrain and people's conditions, especially the stations and defense plans of the entire Linxian County. The situation on the battlefield was almost one-sided, just when Li Ziyuan began to break through to Huguan. The headquarters of the group army in Linxian has been defeated, and the connection between the headquarters of the group army and its subordinate units has been severed.

The commander-in-chief of the group army, who became the commander of the light pole, with the remnants of several headquarters, could only hide in the mountains after failing to break through. The divisions of its 40th Corps, under the command of the commander of the corps, barely struggled to break through to the south. However, under the encirclement of the superior and heavy forces of the Japanese army, they suffered heavy losses in the breakthrough.

Several divisions were basically defeated when they broke through, a large number of personnel were left behind and captured, and heavy losses in weapons and equipment were lost. Only a small number of troops broke out of the Japanese encirclement. Most of the troops that broke through to the south of the Yellow River became empty shelves. By the time they rushed out, the whole army was less than a thousand people.

The 27th Army, which has the strongest combat effectiveness and the best equipment. Because the Tanglin thief collected gold bars and threw them into the peace movement, his flank was directly exposed to the Japanese guns. Before he could react, he was directly defeated by a formed division, and the major general and division commander of the division were also captured.

The remaining two divisions also suffered heavy losses in the breakout and the transfer of battles, but they were still barely maneuvering. However, although there were still two divisions of the army holding out in the encirclement of the Japanese army, these two divisions no longer had actual combat effectiveness and could not pose a major threat to the Japanese army. It was also swept away by the heavy Japanese army, and it was close to running out of ammunition and food.

At this time, on the battlefield of Linxian County, the Japanese army was carrying out a follow-up clean-up and transfer of captured personnel, and searched for the headquarters of the group army hidden in the deep mountains and old forests, as well as the remnants of the scattered Chinese army. Some of the Japanese troops who participated in the war have even begun to retreat one after another. In particular, the 35th Division, which attacked from northern Henan, had withdrawn its main force to its garrison except for some of its troops.

The fighting in Linxian was coming to an end, and a large number of Japanese troops had basically been idle. Therefore, for Li Ziyuan's possibility of breaking through in his own direction, whether it is the Japanese army or the puppet army in this direction, he is a little unconcerned. Especially those puppet army officers, they are busy with small calculations in their hearts at the moment.

Although their boss still has some conscience, it is different from the other puppet army that directly participated in the war, which was also formed by the former Northwest Army generals behind the enemy and co-opted. In this operation, he refused to participate in the battle against Linxian, and only promised the Japanese army to participate in the battle against the Eighth Road.

Although he did not participate in the war, he was still looking forward to whether the Japanese army could transfer a group of people from the prisoners this time. How can we get some of the weapons and ammunition they have captured from the Japanese army, so as to expand their own troops? It has become a common practice for the Japanese army to expand the puppet army with captured weapons, ammunition and prisoners.

The new Fifth Army and the Fortieth Army are not uncommon for those Hanyang-made, old-fashioned sleeves, Jin-made rifles and other miscellaneous firearms. It can be used as the 27th Army, a descendant of the Central Army, equipped with formal rifles and some of the Czech weapons imported before the war.

Before they surrendered to the enemy, they relied on the scattered stragglers of the 29th Army and the guerrilla forces in Hebei. Except for some of the 29th Army's troops, most of the troops were poorly equipped. It was not until after the surrender to the enemy that the Japanese army replenished a batch of Liao 13 rifles, as well as a small number of heavy machine guns and mortars.

Now the battle situation on the Linxian side can be described as a one-touch collapse. These puppet army officers have some small calculations in their hearts, and they are all counting on reaping some benefits from the Japanese army. After all, the old gentleman in Nanjing still spent a lot of money in order to win over these people. When a regiment comes, a division can be expanded.

It cannot but be said that the supreme authority in Chongqing still has some means to control the troops. During the Anti-Japanese War, the number of his Whampoa troops was not large. Most of these are bandit-born ragtag armies from the army or bandits, and they regard strength as the root of their life. The more guns, the better, and don't ask how you got it.

If you can take advantage of this opportunity to draw more guns, you may be able to move up the next level. A unit with only a few thousand men can be organized into a group army with several divisions. If he gets 10,000 guns, he will have no problem with pulling a piece of territory to create a commander's title.

These puppet troops who are thinking about how to get a piece of the pie are almost useless in their minds on the blockade line, for them anyway, a disabled regiment of the Eighth Road will be the opponent of one of their own divisions. Although the strength of his division is a little smaller, only a few thousand people, it is not something that a regiment can compete with.

Although after surrendering to the enemy, he also suffered enough on the battlefield in Shandong. But after all, the current situation is no longer what it used to be, isn't it? There is a lone army over there, and on my side is a whole division. Although there are fewer people, it is after all a division system. What's more, it was still a crippled Eighth Road, which was pursued and outflanked by the Japanese army for several days.

Under the chairman of Nanjing, and the Japanese army, the equipment is even more different from what it used to be. The Hanyang-made and Liao-13 rifles, and the Czech and Belgian machine guns also had a large number. Although the number of heavy machine guns is small, there are more than a dozen in one division. The number of mortars has also doubled.

Now he seems to be a little wealthy, but he is not the garrison in Shanxi. Those who only have burning sticks in their hands are their opponents. What's more, there is also an infantry brigade of the Japanese army here, and the Eighth Route is breaking through in its own direction, isn't it looking for death? Not only the puppet army had this idea, but even the Japanese army itself had this idea.

There were many Japanese puppet troops on the blockade line, but they were very lax. Basically, it was to defend along the road, and did not flank Li Ziyuan to the north. If this Japanese puppet army had participated in the war before, I am afraid that Li Ziyuan's situation would have deteriorated even more. And I'm afraid I can't touch the blockade line, so close.

The Japanese puppet army did not realize that in their eyes, the eight roads, who absolutely did not dare to touch the stone with an egg, had already touched under their noses. But when it was time for Li Ziyuan to make a move, he didn't hesitate at all. The British rifle in his hand, after aiming at the Japanese officer wearing the rank of junior lieutenant, directly pulled the trigger.

The seven-seven-caliber bullet fired by the British rifle directly opened a skylight in the chest of the Japanese soldier who was caught off guard. Of course, Li Ziyuan didn't know that he had this shot, and it was the Japanese captain who cooperated with the puppet army of this division and blocked Huguan and Hubei that he killed.

Li Ziyuan's gunshot kicked off the prelude to this breakthrough. With Li Ziyuan's gunshot, all the soldiers of the entire fourth company smashed the four * pieces distributed to each person on the head of the Japanese puppet army on the highway at the first time. Most of the light machine guns that were transferred to the front also hit the Japanese puppet army on the road with dense bullets at the first time.

And He Huizhang, who was behind Li Ziyuan, also cleanly knocked out the two machine guns of the puppet army in front of him with three mortars. After quickly emptying the bullets in the magazine of this British rifle, Li Ziyuan pulled out his fast and slow machine, and after roaring at the soldiers around him, he rushed towards the Japanese puppet army with the four companies that had already loaded their bayonets under the opening of the light machine gun.

At this time, the puppet army of a battalion on the road here was already in chaos under the smashing of the head and the face smashing and the dense machine-gun fire. When Li Ziyuan rushed onto the highway with the fourth company, the puppet army, which had suffered heavy losses and had not yet recovered from the sudden blow, was directly retreated by the eastward fight.

Li Ziyuan personally commanded the Fourth Company, and under the cover of the only few * guns in the artillery company, it took less than 20 minutes to tear a hole more than 200 meters long in the blockade line of the Japanese puppet army in front of him. After tearing through the blockade line, Li Ziyuan immediately commanded the fourth company to seize the high ground on both flanks of the breakthrough and cover the passage of the follow-up troops.

After receiving the signal from the front, Ma Yongcheng immediately organized a follow-up echelon and quickly passed through the gap opened by Li Ziyuan. Zhang Zijian commanded the main force of the second battalion, replacing the fourth company that had been turned into a striker, along both sides of the breakthrough. Blocking the fierce counterattack launched by the Japanese puppet army, which had come to its senses in the sudden attack.

He Sanliang's evaluation is not wrong, the combat effectiveness and reaction speed of this puppet army are indeed far superior to those puppet armies with many numbers in Shanxi. Just as Ma Yongcheng and the wounded local cadres had just stepped onto the road, the puppet troops on both flanks launched a rapid counterattack under the cover of light and heavy machine guns and mortars.

When Li Ziyuan opened the blockade line, he seized a batch of weapons and ammunition from the puppet army, especially several light machine guns, and handed them over to Zhang Zijian. At the same time, the original light machine guns in his hands, in addition to retaining the machine guns of the original establishment of the fourth company, were also handed over to Zhang Zijian and the second battalion.

Zhang Zijian and the second battalion, which had been strengthened by firepower, started a tug-of-war with the puppet army that counterattacked. This puppet army, wearing the military uniform of the Chongqing side, counterattacked with great intensity. After several thwarted attacks, not only did not flinch at all. It even adopted the tactics of flanking and outflanking, as well as frontal assault.