Chapter 25: The Puppet Army That Dare Not Retreat
Liu Lianming's actions startled Li Ziyuan, but he had no way to stop him when he was using a machine gun to fire. Not only can I only watch this guy watch, braving the rain of bullets from the mountain, running towards the corpse of the puppet army. He also had to climb the switch positions with machine guns in order to cover this reckless guy.
Although Liu Lianming's reckless actions made the root of his anger itch, Li Ziyuan couldn't help but save this squad leader who has gradually become handy. Abandoning any soldier is something Li Ziyuan will never do, let alone Liu Lianming, his most comfortable team leader?
But as soon as Liu Lianming delayed, Li Ziyuan's original retreat plan was all disrupted. And with such a delay, the Japanese puppet army, which had been suppressed, rushed up again. After replacing the machine gun in his hand with a new magazine and knocking down a Japanese soldier who was trying to set up a grenadier with a burst shot, Li Ziyuan shouted to the soldiers around him: "Immediately retreat back 20 meters, and no one is allowed to shoot." Continue to greet with grenades and cover Captain Liu. ”
Hearing his order, several soldiers, including Shi Jin, quickly retreated twenty meters back, took off the grenade on their bodies, and continued to pull the string and throw it desperately down the mountain. As soon as the soldiers left the place, the infantry artillery and mortar shells of the Japanese puppet army under the mountain came up again.
At the same time, a Type 92 heavy machine gun of the Japanese army, together with two two-wheeled Makqin and a few light machine guns of the puppet army, also desperately opened fire on the hill to cover the Japanese puppet army, which had been blown down by grenades before, to charge again. The dense machine-gun fire of the Japanese puppet army under the mountain was coupled with the increasingly accurate shells, and Li Ziyuan couldn't raise his head a little after hitting.
In fact, Li Ziyuan didn't expect that he had no order to shoot, so as not to reveal the position of the team members. But he didn't expect that the mortar of the puppet army was shooting blindly at all places where people could be hidden. However, the Japanese infantry artillery not only reacted very quickly, but also exploded accurately.
If Li Ziyuan hadn't ordered the troops to retreat 20 meters with the keen sense of smell cultivated on the battlefield for many years, I am afraid that the Japanese infantry artillery would have been killed and wounded in one round. But despite the rapid transfer of troops, they were not suppressed by the artillery fire of the Japanese puppet army. However, the Japanese artillery shells blew Li Ziyuan up quite embarrassed.
Li Ziyuan was bombed and held a machine gun, and could only shoot a short shot before moving to a position. In addition, the magazine had to be replaced, so that the machine gun fire could not form continuous interception fire at all. If it weren't for the soldiers behind him desperately throwing grenades, the Japanese puppet army would have rushed up long ago.
Fortunately, although Liu Lianming was a little reckless, his hands and feet were still fast enough. In less than two minutes, the puppet army was stripped away. He didn't care about the weapons that the puppet army had lost, he just took off the bullet belt and grenades that the puppet army had with him.
However, this guy was very fast, and not only did he remove the bullet belt from the corpse in the shortest possible time. He also took off the shell gun and bullets of a puppet army officer next to this puppet army and hung them on his chest. After doing this, Liu Lianming was not in a hurry, turned out the puppet army bullet belt, pressed a bridge clip into the chamber of the gun, and fired continuously, knocking several guys who rushed to the front to the ground.
Seeing that this guy finally finished what he wanted to do first, the machine gun in Li Ziyuan's hand did not fire this time, and after directly emptying a magazine in one go, he beat the Japanese puppet army who rushed over. Taking advantage of this opportunity, under the cover of Liu Lianming's accurate shooting, he immediately turned around and retreated with his troops.
But when he led his troops around the tripping thunder array he had set up, he found a puppet army at the foot of the northeast mountain, outflanking him. Taking advantage of the fact that this puppet army had not yet discovered itself, Li Ziyuan did not hesitate to throw the machine gun in his hand to Shi Jin beside him, dragged the flower machine behind him, and shot down several puppet soldiers with a long point.
These thirty or so puppet soldiers were swept away by him with a magazine and submachine guns. Before he could react, another rain of grenades exploded his head and face. And Li Ziyuan, who had exhausted the flower mechanism in his hand, did not change the magazine, but took out the shell gun and flattened the gun body, and swept at the scattered puppet army.
In this melee battle, Li Ziyuan, who has a lot of automatic firepower, obviously took advantage. There were more than 30 puppet troops in front of him, although there were also a few flower machines and two light machine guns. But under the sudden encounter, before he could set up a machine gun and react, the puppet army carrying the flower mechanism was defeated.
Li Ziyuan's long point shot was not an aimless blind fight. His guns are pointed at the machine gunners of the puppet army, as well as people with short guns and flower traps. These people who were caught off guard were not left under the sweep of his flower machine. The remaining Heavy reacted quickly, but did not dodge the grenade in the back.
The power of the Jin-made grenade is not much smaller than the Japanese army's standard Type 97 grenade, and it far exceeds the home-made grenade in the base area. A grenade exploded right under the guy's feet, blasting the hapless Heavy into parts along with his machine gun.
And Liu Lianming, who was beside him, also kept shooting to cover him. This guy got Li Ziyuan's advice and specifically targeted the man with a short gun. A few guys who escaped Li Ziyuan's firepower with shell guns on their backs were knocked down by this guy one by one before they could command the troops to disperse.
After several blows, the blockade line composed of these 30 puppet armies was quickly broken through before they could play their role. More than 30 puppet soldiers were killed in half, and the remaining half still dared to resist there. Especially when the officers were basically dead and wounded, their courage had already been frightened, and they turned into birds and beasts and directly gave way to the retreat route.
After breaking the blockade line composed of these dozens of puppet troops, Li Ziyuan quickly picked up the shell guns dropped by the two puppet army officers, plus a few flower traps, and unloaded the bullets he carried. Ignoring no weapons other than grenades, he led his troops through the northeast ridge and turned into the mountains east of Pingchuan.
When the Japanese puppet army that was chasing behind finally arrived after being killed and wounded by his tripping thunder array, there was nothing left but the corpses in one place. Li Ziyuan and his subordinates had already rushed along the mountain beam and disappeared into the shallow mountainous area east of Pingchuan.
Although the mountainous area to the east of Pingchuan Town is dominated by hills and extremely scattered hills, the mountains are far inferior to the mountains east of Qiaokou. But the area is quite small, coupled with the loss of the guidance of military dogs and the cover of the night that has been completely darkened, the Japanese puppet army, which has been biting Li Ziyuan, has lost the traces of him and his subordinates.
The Japanese puppet army, which paid a lot of price but did not catch anything, was obviously unwilling. Neither the Japanese squadron leader in Pingchuan Town, Captain Hisao Ikeda, nor the puppet garrison captain Wang Tieshi, had any intention of withdrawing their troops. The two men slightly combined and spread the troops eastward, searching one mountain bag after another at an interval of 500 meters.
In fact, it's not that these two guys don't want to collect troops, it's because they don't dare to collect troops until they find out this eight paths. Both Hisao Ikeda and Wang Tieshi know it. The reason why his head is still on his neck is definitely not that Luo Hekanshiro Shaozo is magnanimous. Especially Wang Tieshi, a hardcore traitor who was almost directly used as a scapegoat, still feels cold in his neck.
At present, the Tubalu that assassinated Xiao Jiunan Shaozo before has not been caught yet. At present, as the first project of the 36th Division, the Baijin Railway Line has been damaged again. After a while, the pursuit was carried out, and the casualties were not small, but nothing was caught. Luo Hekanshiro Shaozuo, who had accidents one after another, and it was difficult to deal with him in front of his superiors, it was strange that he could spare the two of them.
For Wang Tieshi, who was almost not used as a scapegoat last time, he knew that he could not escape the blame this time. If last time he could excuse Xiao Jiu Nan Shaozuo to do his own thing and be unable to restrain himself, then this time he didn't have any excuse to excuse himself. The entire Pingchuan Town is his base camp, and it was turned upside down by a few people.
Moreover, the Baijin Railway, which passes through the west of Pingchuan Town, is the key security area of its own garrison. The main force of the defenders is their own garrison. Now he was actually bombed under his nose, and he couldn't find an excuse to sort himself out. What's more, there are two sworn enemies, Liu Kaishan and Xu Bojiu, and it would be strange if they didn't fall into the well at this time.
The Japanese killing the Chinese is like killing a chicken, don't look at yourself as the captain of the Hubei County Garrison Brigade, but Wang Tieshi knows that if the Japanese turn their faces and are determined to change horses, they will not have the slightest softness in killing themselves. If we can't catch this dirt and make a mistake now, the Japanese will not let them go.
At present, the Baijin Railway, which is about to be completed, is currently the first project of the Japanese army in the southeast of Shanxi. The deployment of the entire 36th Division is now revolving around this railway. This time, the record of the first attack on the railway line was still done by a few dirt roads, and it is strange that the Japanese did not go crazy. If you want to keep your current status and power, you can only find a way to catch this damn dirt road.
The most important thing is that at this time, not only Wang Tieshi said that he didn't dare to withdraw his troops. Even if he wanted to withdraw, the Captain Hisao Ikeda next to him would not agree. Wang Tieshi, who has been stationed together for a long time, still understands the character of this Japanese captain who is a fierce and unreasonable, but somewhat reckless Japanese captain next to him.
This guy whose mind is full of ideas for making meritorious contributions, where will he be willing to withdraw troops at this time. Especially when there are only a few attackers, this guy will definitely not stop there. If he doesn't catch his opponent, he won't just withdraw his troops and return to the camp. If he doesn't fully cooperate, this guy will report to Luo He Shaozuo at that time, so what will happen to wait for him.
It is precisely because of several reasons, so although I feel that Captain Hiroo Ikeda, it is a little inappropriate to go out to clean up. But Wang Tieshi could only bite the bullet and lead the troops to cooperate with this guy to chase down, although he didn't know which direction to pursue.
However, although he lost the trace of his opponent, Wang Tieshi, with the sense of smell cultivated by his years of walking on the tip of the knife, was keenly judged that these people must be the same group as the few people who assassinated Xiao Jiunan Shaozo two days ago, or even those people. As long as you pursue it eastward, you should still have something to gain.