Chapter 304: Striking the Grass and Startling the Snake
Although these Japanese troops have not yet determined the exact location of the headquarters organs, they have already judged the approximate location of the headquarters organs through various means. Liu Lianming was not far from the headquarters office, and he was targeted by this advance team. It's just that the Japanese lieutenant who led the team made an error in judgment.
At the moment, Tsuruta Numu has not yet arrived, and this lieutenant, who has just graduated from Nakano School and was selected by Tsuruta Numusu, has obviously made an empirical mistake. Liu Lianming's detachment each had a long and short gun, and he directly regarded it as the guard unit of the headquarters. He thought that by following Liu Lianming, he would definitely be able to find the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army.
When he was training, he was explicitly told by his boss. All the armies of China, regardless of the faction's armament, whether it is the Chongqing Army or the Communist Army. It has a very important principle in judging the command, that is, to look at the number of short guns, especially shell guns, in this unit.
The vast majority of the guards of the command organs of the Chinese army are equipped with a fairly high proportion of shell guns. If you see a large number of people armed with shell guns around the enemy's army, 90 percent can be judged as a high command. It was from this point of view that this lieutenant judged that Liu Lianming must be the guard unit of the high command.
With his own team, he quietly followed. But he didn't expect that the person he was tracking was exactly the opposite direction of his real target of this operation. And this well-equipped unit is not the real guard force he is targeting.
It's just that this guy is too dogmatic and insists that if he follows Liu Lianming, he will definitely be able to find his goal. Although it is not wrong for him to do this without determining the location of the ultimate goal, the problem is that he is really following the wrong goal.
Although Liu Lianming, who is also a veteran of a hundred battles, is very vigilant under Li Ziyuan's deliberate *, he also noticed that someone was following him. But this Japanese advance team was also quite careful when tracking. Coupled with professional training, Liu Lianming tried several times to find out who the stalker was, but he failed to find it.
Therefore, Liu Lianming has been acting very carefully since he left the headquarters. The farther away from HQ was the attempt to bring the unidentified and unidentified stalkers out of HQ as far as possible. As a result, by mistake, I didn't expect to meet Li Ziyuan, who was about to meet the headquarters.
When Li Ziyuan and Liu Lianming converged, the guy who had already found out that he was with the wrong person at this time wanted to return to the original location, but it was too late. Although Li Ziyuan brought two radio stations, there were many non-combatants in the team. But in that respect, the difference between it and a high command is too great.
As long as he is not too stupid, he will basically not think of his team as a high command. This guy is indeed a bit rigid, but that doesn't mean he's stupid. The difference between the performance of a group of recruits on the march and at rest and that of an officer is still clear.
It's just that when that guy realized that something was wrong, he wanted to turn around and evacuate and return to the original starting point, but it was too late. As soon as he met with Liu Lianming, after listening to Liu Lianming's introduction, Li Ziyuan, who solved the two advancing teams of the Japanese army, immediately felt that something was wrong.
Although he did not act hastily, he also divided the forces in his hands into two ways according to the situation in front of him. After dispatching a part of the veterans to replenish Liu Lianming's platoon, he asked him to immediately take another direction and detour back to his own way to set up an ambush. If gunfire rings out from this side, look for a gap behind the enemy and attack.
And he pulled out the formation in the direction of the headquarters, pulling out the straggler line all the way and squeezing it slowly. When Li Ziyuan was deployed, he stretched the formation very wide. The two Japanese advance teams that fought before were quite strong in combat. If it weren't for some small measures taken by himself, just one of Okawa Momoyoshi's advance teams would be enough to hurt his vitality.
Li Ziyuan faintly felt that the Japanese army who could follow Liu Lianming for so long was definitely not a good stubble. It is even possible that they have received more special and professional training than the two advance teams they have played before. The opponent may be stronger, and the troops under his command will no longer be the same.
is such a new army, if it really encounters hard stubble and does not collapse on the spot, it will be considered lucky. At the same time, it is also to put more pressure on the opponent who is still nowhere to be seen. Therefore, Li Ziyuan took the squad as the formation of the troops, and the team formed a trapezoidal configuration at the front and rear. Even if there are certain casualties, it will not fall into chaos all of a sudden.
The most important thing is that Li Ziyuan's idea also requires him to stretch the troops and formations as far as possible, and cast the net as wide as possible. Unable to find out the identity of the potential stalker for a while, Li Ziyuan adopted the tactic of startling the snake. Li Ziyuan's meaning is very clear, since you don't come out, then I will find a way to drive you out.
Of course, although Liu Lianming only felt that someone was following behind him, he could not make a final determination. But who is Li Ziyuan, two Japanese advance teams successively, and finally folded in his hands. As soon as Liu Lianming said what he felt, Li Ziyuan was keenly aware of the abnormality.
Liu Lianming is a veteran and has unusually rich battlefield experience. Li Ziyuan believes that this kind of different feeling cultivated on the battlefield for a long time will never make a mistake. And the people who followed behind so sneakily and didn't dare to show their heads except for the Japanese army, Li Ziyuan didn't think that there would be other people.
It is less than 30 miles away from the headquarters station. With the ability of the Japanese army to run long distances, it will pose an extremely serious threat to the headquarters organs within this distance. For Li Ziyuan, there is no other second choice at the moment, so he can only fight hard.
Li Ziyuan was fighting grass and startling snakes here, and the Japanese army over there who had been biting Liu Lianming unrelentingly was caught off guard by Li Ziyuan's tactics. Although this Japanese army was strictly trained in camouflage, the Eighth Route Army put a bayonet on the rifle in front of them, and even had to have a bayonet in every bush, which made these guys really unbearable.
When the bayonet of one of the fighters who participated in the squeeze stabbed into a bush. A Japanese soldier lurking here, unable to stand the practice of adding bayonets but unable to fight back. The southern submachine gun in his hand directly pulled the trigger at the soldier who stabbed him in the back.
Although he fired a short shot from the submachine gun in his hand, before the bayonet stabbed him in the chest, the few bullets fired accurately entered the chest of the soldier in front of him. But with the gunshots, the Japanese advance team hidden on this hillside was completely exposed. With these few gunshots, the gunfire rang out quickly everywhere on the entire hillside.
A platoon that took part in the search of this hillside was caught off guard by the fire of the superior automatic firearms of the Japanese army, and did not hold out for even a round before retreating. And Li Ziyuan at the foot of the mountain was also stunned when he heard the sound of a considerable number of automatic firearms firing continuously on the hillside.
Although the rifles and machine guns that fired on the mountain were all the sound of 79 weapons, Li Ziyuan still quickly judged at the first time that the Japanese troops on the hillside were all fired. It's just that the sound of a large number of short-point submachine gun shots made Li Ziyuan feel that something was wrong. The Japanese army that used the 79 weapons was undoubtedly armed like the two advance teams that had been solved by themselves before.
However, the large number of automatic firearms of the Japanese army on the mountain made him feel that the Japanese army on the mountain was still quite different from the two similar armed forces he had encountered before. Li Ziyuan had dealt with the Japanese army for several years, and it was the first time he had seen the Japanese army equipped with so many submachine guns.
And when the machine gunner beside him, after hearing the battle on the mountain. Under the command of a squad leader beside him, when he was moving towards that side with a machine gun, he was actually knocked down by a shot from the Japanese army on the hillside at a distance of 400 meters. It made Li Ziyuan feel that this Japanese army was different from the two Japanese advance teams he had fought before.
This is not an ordinary Type 38 rifle, fought with ordinary Japanese soldiers. Even if the Japanese army's individual shooting skills were excellent, it would not be possible to defeat the enemy with a single shot from a distance of 400 meters. If he guessed correctly, this gun should be a rifle with a scope, only in this way it can shoot accurately at a distance of four hundred meters.
But if this is the case, coupled with a large number of automatic firearms, this Japanese army is fundamentally different from the previous two advance teams. At least in terms of firepower configuration, it is a world of difference from the previous Japanese army. Under such circumstances, Li Ziyuan didn't even dare to raise his telescope and look at the hillside over there.
Thinking of this, Li Ziyuan crawled to the side of the sacrificial machine gunner and hugged the crooked machine gun under him. He took off the bullet belt from the secondary shooter and dodged a shot from the opponent's pursuit. Holding the machine gun, he quickly moved in a serpentine manner, avoiding the bullets fired by the Japanese snipers.
Move towards a large boulder about 150 meters away from the hillside, which can be used as a hidden boulder. Although he had a crooked machine gun with a longer range in his hand, Li Ziyuan did not have the confidence to suppress the opponent's sniper at a distance of 400 meters. What's more, staying here in a slightly empty terrain is basically a live target.
Getting as close to the hillside as possible was his only option. But in this case, not to mention facing two Japanese snipers, that is, ordinary Japanese veterans, Li Ziyuan's approach is quite risky. But looking at the troops around him, under the long-range shooting of Japanese snipers, they couldn't even form the most basic battle formation.
Once the Japanese army, which was already condescending on the mountain, relied on a large number of automatic firearms to rush down, then their own troops would not be able to hold out for an hour before they would be crushed. Li Ziyuan, who had no choice, could only take a risk. Otherwise, what else to do, watching the troops trapped here and unable to move?
Seeing Li Ziyuan rushing out, He Sanliang beside him grabbed Guo Xiaoshan, who wanted to go out with him. He knew that at this distance, when the other party had a sniper, Guo Xiaoshan would not only not be able to help Li Ziyuan, but would even cause Li Ziyuan's distraction. If Li Ziyuan's movements were a little slower, even if it was a single shot, he might be hit by a Japanese sniper.
He Sanliang, who was holding Guo Xiaoshan and not letting go, turned around and gave an order to the soldiers around him, asking them to shoot at the hillside. Not to mention that this new recruit-based unit is an ordinary old army. There is basically no possibility of hitting the Japanese army at this distance.
But doing so can at least distract the other person's gaze and distract them. Give Li Ziyuan to move towards the goal, and create some opportunities. At the same time, it also attracted the opponent's machine gun firepower to avoid the enemy's firepower from concentrating too much on Li Ziyuan alone.