I never thought that the Eighth Route would also use poison gas bombs, and even those Japanese soldiers who carried gas masks, many of them were smoked because they were busy dodging shells and did not have time to carry gas masks. As for the puppet army that did not have gas masks and did not even have knowledge of chemical defense, they were even more unlucky, almost all of them were poisoned.

It even developed to the point that if Li Ziyuan wanted to take advantage of the chaos to attack, he could completely defeat this Japanese army. It's just a pity that Li Ziyuan, who was in a hurry to retreat, just used these more than 100 rounds of poison gas bombs to cover his retreat. After exhausting the seized gas bombs, Li Ziyuan immediately closed the stall and left.

It cannot be said that Li Ziyuan did not carefully observe the symptoms of the Japanese army after being poisoned, and he really lost a rare fighter. The Japanese puppet army of 2,000 is smaller, even if half of them are poisoned. But the rest of the Japanese army is definitely not a hard bone to gnaw on. Especially those former Kwantung Army, which had the least poisoning, were quite strong in combat.

Once the war drags on, it is not known how many Japanese troops will arrive in the surrounding area. On the battlefield of this era, the side with sound means of communication is far superior to the side that lacks effective means of communication and liaison in capturing fighters. The devil has a radio station and can summon reinforcements at any time, and when the time comes, it will not be possible to tell who will destroy whom.

Therefore, after Li Ziyuan fired more than 100 rounds of poison gas shells, he did not look at how many poisons the Japanese puppet army had been poisoned, how many people had lost their combat effectiveness, and what kind of opportunities they would leave for themselves. In the first time, they immediately cleaned up and transferred, and the speed made the Japanese army behind them a mess, and it was too late to say that the wind had a smooth journey.

However, judging from the subsequent progress of the situation, Li Ziyuan's determination to retreat is still correct. Less than three hours before Li Ziyuan withdrew from the battlefield, a group of thousands of Japanese troops from the direction of Licheng arrived here first. Immediately, a large number of Japanese troops came from all over the surrounding area.

At the same time, several Japanese light bombers also appeared in the sky over the battlefield one after another with the cooperation of reconnaissance planes. If Li Ziyuan really knows that the map inspection is cheap, then the consequences are really difficult to predict. The more than 2,000 pure Japanese troops who rushed in are estimated not to make his life any better. Just a few bombers, enough for him to drink a pot.

However, after these Japanese puppet troops arrived, Li Ziyuan had already slipped away. In the face of a large number of poisoned Japanese troops, the role that can be played is to change all of them to stretcher teams and carry the poisoned Japanese troops to retreat quickly. Although the Japanese troops who came with reinforcements rushed to the rescue, in the face of so many Japanese soldiers being poisoned, they could only rescue these poisoned people first.

As long as there are no eight roads around, they can't care about anything else. After all, as the developer of poison gas bombs, they still have a certain ability to detoxify and treat. Although there are many poisoned people, if they are rescued in time, these poisoned people may not be saved.

But if Li Ziyuan stays here and tries to continue to besiege these Japanese troops, he wants to take advantage of your illness to kill you. These Japanese soldiers who rushed over in the shortest time were afraid that Li Ziyuan would not be able to eat and walk around. In the face of a large number of poisoned Japanese soldiers, these Japanese soldiers who rushed over were under the feeling of death and cold teeth, and it was estimated that they would not be willing to dismantle the attackers.

But the Japanese soldiers who rushed over only rescued the Japanese army themselves. As for those poisoned puppet soldiers, they were thrown here and no one cared about them. Even in order to prevent the military uniforms and weapons contaminated with poison gas from causing the rescuers to be poisoned twice when rescuing the wounded, even the weapons and ammunition they carried were not confiscated.

The Japanese army threw away the puppet army, which was also poisoned, and instead completed several local armed forces operating nearby. After the Japanese army withdrew, the weapons and equipment of these puppet troops, even the clothes on their bodies were stripped away. Although they are Chinese, not to mention a few small guerrilla units with less than 100 people combined, even the Eighth Route Army itself has no rescue medicine and technology.

These poisoned puppet soldiers can only be in pain* and have nothing to do. However, although Li Ziyuan was unable to kill the Japanese army one step closer, the chain reaction caused by this battle was not small. This Japanese puppet army, which was converted into a stretcher team, evacuated after carrying a large number of poisoned Japanese troops.

It is equivalent to the Japanese army's troops invested in the Taihang Mountain sweep this time, at least one-fifth of which was withdrawn in a short period of time. In this battle, the Japanese puppet army that lost its combat effectiveness or died after being poisoned led to nearly 1,000 casualties among the Japanese puppet army that participated in the war. It also invisibly alleviated the destruction of the Taihang Mountains by the Japanese puppet army's sudden sweep.

At least the former Kwantung Army was no longer able to participate in the follow-up sweeps. And most of the Japanese puppet army in Licheng went at once. After this battle, although the Japanese sweep continued. However, because the Japanese puppet army in Licheng lost most of its strength, the remaining part of the Japanese puppet army did not dare to continue to stay, and withdrew from the territory of Licheng one after another.

After this battle, when the Japanese army swept the Taihang Mountain, they became more and more cautious in using chemical weapons. Even in order to avoid a similar situation at one time, the Japanese troops who swept into the mountains, except for a few smoke canisters, rarely carried chemical munitions again, at least poison gas shells were not allowed to enter the mountains.

And once again, the regulations for the destruction of chemical weapons in times of unfavorable combat were strictly stipulated. If chemical weapons appear in that unit again, regardless of the reason, they will be given the most severe accountability and military punishment to the direct commander of the unit.

As for the leader of the chemical squad who cooperated with the operation this time, although he saved his life and finally escaped. But after going back, he was pushed out as a substitute for the dead, and under the strict orders of the supreme commander of the Japanese army who participated in the sweep, he was forced to commit suicide to take responsibility for the incident.

There was no way that the hundreds of rounds of poison gas bombs fell into the hands of the Eight Roads, and were eventually used against themselves, resulting in quite serious losses. Moreover, more than half of the personnel of a formed brigade that had just been transferred from the Kwantung Army to the Shanxi battlefield were poisoned, and the Japanese troops who participated in the war had to give an explanation to the base camp and the North China Front.

The battle took place in the face of heavy losses among the officers involved in the battle, and the most critical and directly responsible persons had been killed. The captain of the squad with the lowest official position was pushed out as a scapegoat. Although he escaped on the battlefield, he was ordered to apologize for his crimes after returning. Although it retains its so-called samurai dignity, it is even more painful to die.

This point, but with his own troops, as well as the reinforced battalion under his original command, and the remaining strength of one and a half companies, all of them were withdrawn to his nest in Hubei in one go, and Li Ziyuan, who stopped to catch his breath, did not know. At this time, Li Ziyuan had time to talk with a few cadres who led the reinforcements to talk and learn about the experience.

And Ma Yongcheng over there looked at Li Ziyuan in front of him, but told him that the Japanese army had attacked the Taihang base this time, but in front of the entire Ludong Division, he only took the action of containing the line. Despite the unusually frequent movements and the many shallow and deep penetrating operations, they never made a large-scale attack on the eastern direction of Ludong.

However, although the Japanese army was only bluffing in front of Ludong, it also contained most of the forces of the Ludong Army Division. And because Li Ziyuan has not been there, and the troops have not yet completed the final formation, they can only spend most of their energy during this period of time to prevent the Japanese army from taking advantage of the chaos to sneak attack.

And the puppet army that attacked Li Ziyuan, disguised by the Japanese army, suddenly set out from Ludong and forcibly interspersed from the Ludong Army sub-district area, which also restrained them a lot of energy. Most of the energy of the main force of the division was devoted to preventing this Japanese army from harassing and destroying the area under its jurisdiction.

As soon as Li Ziyuan's side started, they had already found out on their side. After discovering that the target of this group of Japanese troops was actually behind their backs, the military division ordered them to immediately ascertain the situation and rescue the brother units that might be in distress. It's just that everyone didn't expect that the person trapped on the mountain was actually Li Ziyuan.

It's just that although I don't know that Li Ziyuan is on the mountain, since everyone is the Eighth Route Army, there is no reason not to save it. In the face of the huge disparity in the strength of the enemy and us, the method of sneak attack and bluff was adopted. I just wanted to scare the Japanese army away as soon as possible and rescue the troops trapped on the mountain.

After giving a general introduction to the situation, Ma Yongcheng looked at Li Ziyuan, who was depressed, and said with a wry smile: "You said that you are a brother, just forget about it." But no one thought that your brother would be earth-shattering when he came out of the hospital. But now that your brother is back, I can take this burden off my shoulders too. ”

"I'm a person, let's do my political work. It's really not my forte. You're not in this time, but you're exhausting me. Fortunately, there are Deputy Regiment Commander Zhang and Lao He, otherwise I would have been really blind in this battle, and I don't know how to fight. ”

Ma Yongcheng's words fell, but Li Ziyuan fell into deep thought. After ordering the troops to strengthen their vigilance, Li Ziyuan opened the map and pondered for a while, and then said to Ma Yongcheng: "Old Ma, except for our Ludong Army Division, how is the progress of the Japanese army in other directions?" Where is the position of the military division headquarters now, don't tell you that there is no news at all. ”

Li Ziyuan's rhetorical question, Ma Yongcheng smiled bitterly and said: "The military division headquarters will be transferred to our Hubei territory now." But we really don't know about the war in other directions now. Radio communication between the military sub-district and the military district has been cut off, and apart from some sporadic news, we have no news from any other direction at all. ”

Ma Yongcheng's answer made Li Ziyuan slightly taken aback, knocked on the map and quickly made up his mind: "Old Ma, let's go find the military division immediately." Also, let the broken troops be careful, and don't be careless. This time, the devil was scared away by us, and his real strength did not suffer much loss. ”

"I'm worried that the Japanese soldiers before will react, and after suffering such a big loss, they may not be willing to give up. You know the habits of devils, and they are definitely the kind of people who will definitely get back to the field after suffering a loss. If the devil catches up the troops and chases after the buttocks, we will suffer a big loss. ”

I didn't know how much damage I had caused to the Japanese army with the more than 100 poison gas bombs fired before leaving, and the Japanese army was actually unable to pursue Li Ziyuan, so he was still very cautious. He still thinks that it is better to be cautious than hasty in this kind of thing.

Li Ziyuan's insistence, Ma Yongcheng has no room for opposition. He took Li Ziyuan and the gathered troops to the military division headquarters that was now at the junction of Hubei and Ludong. Seeing the leaders who were in the headquarters right now, but they were still a little haggard with a sad face, Li Ziyuan shouted a report and saluted directly.