The reason why the Japanese puppet army in Hubei carried out this distribution was to avoid being taken advantage of by the Eighth Route Army to fish in troubled waters and break through each one. It is to consider that under the condition that one's own mobile forces are insufficient, the limited forces can be used to the maximum. Of course, the deployment posture of the Japanese puppet army was also suggested by Liang De, a traitor who was very familiar with the situation of the Eighth Route Army.

It is precisely because of this plan that the Luoma stronghold is responsible for the supply and response of Hejiayu and Donglinkou, the two advancing strongholds. According to the so-called contingency plan formulated by the Japanese puppet army in Hubei, the Japanese puppet army in the fallen stronghold immediately set off after receiving a call for help from the Hejiayu stronghold.

Moreover, the Japanese puppet army dispatched from the stronghold of the fallen horse was also quite cunning and insidious. After they set off, they did not directly kill in the direction of Donglinkou, but first went around the north. Under the guidance of a traitor from a local background, he avoided the frontal route that was easy to be spotted, and chose a mountain trail known only to the locals, and reinforced the stronghold of Donglinkou.

This Japanese puppet army was very cautious, trying to avoid all populated villages when reinforcing them, and all the routes of travel were chosen in the steep mountains. No talking or smoking along the way, and maximum tactical concealment was achieved along the way. Although it took a lot of effort, he also successfully avoided the surveillance post arranged by Li Ziyuan.

The Japanese puppet army in the stronghold of the fallen horse moved so quickly and avoided their own surveillance posts, which was somewhat unexpected by Li Ziyuan. The sudden appearance of this variable made Li Ziyuan quite passive for a while throughout the battle. His entire battle plan was almost ruined.

By the time it was discovered by Li Ziyuan's alert forces deployed in the rear, this Japanese puppet army was less than two kilometers away from the ambush circle set up by Li Ziyuan to ambush the Japanese puppet army in Hejiayu. Even the gunshots on both sides were so close that they could be heard clearly from each other.

However, before the Japanese puppet army from the fallen stronghold arrived at the battlefield, the entire battle progress was still according to Li Ziyuan's predetermined assumption. The Japanese puppet army that set out from Hejiayu enjoyed a cold greeting as soon as they left the Hejiayu stronghold and had not walked a few miles. The blocking troops arranged by Li Ziyuan, according to Li Ziyuan's orders, did not fight them head-on at all.

In the mountains on both sides of the improvised road, several bullets kept coming in, or at a certain corner, a grenade suddenly flew by. Although the bullets that came were fired, they weren't the same old robbers as Murata or the old sleeves. The grenades that flew over were also of poor quality made by the Eighth Route Army, and most of them were grenades that exploded in half.

A grenade that landed in the ranks of the Japanese soldiers, after exploding, blew up the hapless Japanese soldier as if he had been dug out of an ash pit, and his whole body was pitch black. But this unlucky guy, after some inspection, was stunned to find that he had not even lost a piece of skin except for the smoked pitch black.

After laughing at the inferior quality of the eight-way grenade, the Japanese puppet army continued to advance as if it had not been harassed in any way. It's just that despite the cold guns from the mountains on both wings, the accuracy rate is quite low. The grenades that were thrown over, after exploding, were difficult to kill the Japanese puppet army.

But this kind of endless harassment made the Japanese puppet army set off from Hejiayu move as fast as a snail. After setting off from Hejiayu for a whole hour, he was not able to get out of the road of ten miles. After kicking down a blown pine cannon and a foreign-skinned iron bucket filled with firecracker shavings, the Japanese squad leader's patience finally came to an end.

When the Murata 22 rifle, which was extremely unique compared to other standard rifles of the Japanese army, rang out again, and the dense sound of machine guns rang out again on the hillside. clearly judged that this was another trick made by the dirt eight roads, in order to delay the speed of his own reinforcements, the leader of the Japanese army.

This time, he directly ordered the puppet army to be in the middle of the two flanks, ignoring the cold guns from the mountains on both flanks, and forcibly marching in the direction of Hejiayu. In his opinion, what kind of cold guns and cold cannons, that is, those dirt and eight roads are just bluffs. If he had walked like this, by the time he arrived at Donglinkou, the imperial soldiers there would have starved to death.

The Japanese puppet army, whose patience had been exhausted, penetrated directly into the Donglinkou stronghold, and marched another fifteen miles in the direction of Donglinkou. When he arrived at the location of the Donglinkou stronghold after walking less than twenty miles, he got into the ambush circle that Li Ziyuan really set up. The two companies, together with the two machine guns captured at Donglinkou, had been waiting for these Japanese puppet troops for a long time.

Five mines were also planted on the road below the mountain. Of course, these mines were made by the base area itself, and they were filled with black powder. But the problem is that these five mines are formed by merging the original 25 mine charges, and it is not clear how much the power has increased. But one thing is for sure, at least much bigger than the original.

Because these mines were converted from the jars of the peasants for pickling pickles. In addition to the black powder and the few yellow explosives in Li Ziyuan's hand, there were also a lot of iron nails. And in order to confuse the Japanese puppet army, Li Ziyuan also set up a lot of fake mines in the ambush circle.

The mines made by the base area in Li Ziyuan's hands, except for the ones used by Zeng Sheng to block the Wangjiagou stronghold, the rest are here. At the same time, considering the pressure that He Sanliang may face on his side. Li Ziyuan left all the mines filled with yellow explosives over there, and he only left 25 mines made by the division himself.

also knows that these are just mines filled with black powder, and how lethal Li Ziyuan actually is. The charges of these 25 mines were simply dismantled, and the method of combining five mines into one was adopted to transform five large mines. He didn't ask for how many Japanese puppet soldiers were killed, he only wanted to be able to injure as many Japanese puppet soldiers as possible.

When the puppet army turned into Li Ziyuan's ambush circle, the first thing they saw was in the middle of the road, and there was a sealed jar exposed on the ground every few meters. These are buried in the ground, but the mouth is exposed to the ground. The most important thing is that at the mouth of the jar, which is sealed with oiled paper, there is also a long lead that connects to the hillside not far away.

Seeing these somewhat strange jars, the first thought of all the Japanese puppet soldiers was landmines. When they saw the exposed hair pulling device, the first thing everyone did was to lie down quickly. It's just that a few puppet soldiers who were forced to clear the mines, when they dug out the jar with trepidation, they found that it was only filled with loess or gravel.

Not to mention the standard explosives, even the black powder commonly used in the eight-way home-made mines is not there. As for the fire-pulling device, it is just the other end, a few meters long rope hidden in the grass. In other words, these mines are all fake, but they are cleverly set up, and you can't see them at all without digging out the jar.

When several jars were dug up in a row, it was like this, making the Japanese squad leader feel that he had been tricked again. Ordered the troops not to have more than a dozen similarly arranged jars in front of them, and speed up the movement to the Donglinkou stronghold. He stubbornly believed that these things were just these abominable dirt roads, and they were just playing tricks to slow down his march.

In order to rush to the Donglinkou stronghold for reinforcements in the shortest possible time. This Japanese squad leader gave the order not to pay attention to these things, let alone waste time to eliminate them. Although the puppet army accompanying them was a little reluctant, they thought that they should at least avoid these things. But the Emperor Taishang gave an order, and these puppet soldiers could only carry it out.

Just when the vanguard of the Japanese puppet army was about to turn out of this mountain pass. The front one, which was also exposed outside, suddenly exploded violently when a Japanese soldier stepped on it. This explosion connected several jars behind the Japanese puppet army brigade, and there were also continuous explosions.

The continuous violent explosions blew down a large part of the Japanese puppet army in the front half of the team. It can even be said that the Japanese puppet army in the first half of the queue was either killed or injured by these loud bangs. The Japanese puppet army behind was completely stunned by this sudden scene.

Before these Japanese puppet troops could react, the dense bullets mixed with grenades on the mountains on both sides of the highway hit them with their heads and faces. This time, the sound on the mountain was no longer the previous firecracker sound in the foreign leather iron barrel, but all of them were real bullets.

The Japanese puppet army, which had not yet woken up from the sound of the explosion, was knocked down by the dense rain of bullets. He Jiayu dispatched the heavy machine gun carried by the Japanese puppet army, but before it could be set up, several shooters were swept by a light machine gun, and all of them were knocked down.

In addition to the Japanese puppet army that was killed and injured by those extra-large mines, the Japanese puppet army that was dispatched from Hejiayu in less than ten minutes was only half of the time when it set off. In particular, of the more than 20 Japanese soldiers who were the key targets, only a few were still resisting.

Although the speed of the Japanese soldiers' reaction far exceeded that of the puppet army. But the problem was that some of the front was killed, and although the Japanese troops in the rear immediately lay down, all their tactical evasion was almost futile in the face of the grenades that exploded in the air and the grenades that opened the grenades.

After more than ten minutes of fighting, most of the Japanese troops were killed, and most of the puppet army, except for a few diehards, had lost the will to resist. Although there are still a few people who are stubbornly resisting, there is no longer any suspense in the battle at this time. Looking at the results of the battle under the mountain, Li Ziyuan put down the telescope in his hand very satisfied.

But just as he was about to blow the trumpet to launch a full-line charge against the trumpeters beside him, a dense gunfire suddenly sounded behind the ambush battlefield. The sudden sound of gunfire from behind made Li Ziyuan feel startled. In that direction was a guard squad he had sent out, where the sound of a gun only indicated that there was an enemy behind him.

And judging by the sound of the Type 92 heavy machine guns in the gunfire, as well as the firing of at least three or more light machine guns. There are still a lot of Japanese puppet troops behind him, and in terms of numbers, they are at least more than the Japanese puppet army under the mountain. Looking at the bottom of the mountain and hearing the gunshots on the periphery, there were some Japanese puppet soldiers who returned the sun.

After a quick calculation, Li Zi gritted his teeth and said to the trumpeter and the two communicators beside him: "Immediately blow the trumpet of the charge, and order all but three companies and one platoon to attack Lao Tzu." Tell Zhang Zijian that he will command him here, and completely eliminate this Japanese puppet army for Lao Tzu at all costs. If one of them runs, I'll unscrew his head. ”

Hearing Li Ziyuan's order, the bugleman and the two communicators did not dare to hesitate in the slightest. One of the two correspondents ran to inform Zhang Zijian, and the other immediately transferred the third company and one platoon. After the three companies and one platoon rushed over, the trumpeters immediately sounded the charge horn in accordance with Li Ziyuan's order and issued an order to attack on the whole line.