Not only the need to replenish the troops, but also to open up the situation for Liu Yanlai, Li Ziyuan must not limit his area of activity to the eastern mountainous areas. Compared with the previous fast exit and fast forward, Li Ziyuan made up his mind this time and tossed around in the Japanese-occupied area in the western part of Hubei.

Although in the western part of the country, where the Japanese and puppets are heavily armed, it is almost impossible to build a stable base area. But if he wants to really open up the situation in Hubei County, he must at least turn the plains in the west into a guerrilla zone. At the same time, the channel connecting the west and the east will be opened to ensure that the materials from the west can smoothly enter the eastern mountainous areas.

Therefore, after completing the battle, Li Ziyuan left some troops for Chang Juan to protect the materials that were rushed. With a small army, he directly 'inserted' into the Shangdang Basin to the west of Hubei. This time, I hit the northern county seat, and according to the normal reaction, I should return to the eastern mountains for refuge and rest.

But it's just a normal reaction, if you always play cards according to common sense, is it still yourself? Didn't the Japanese army judge their whereabouts according to normalcy, and didn't they just give themselves a rare opportunity? Taking advantage of the Japanese army's habit of judging the laws of the activities of the Eighth Route Army, he could just catch them off guard.

Considering the need for mobility and flexibility in the activities of troops in enemy-occupied areas, what is needed is not the size of the troops. What is needed is flexibility, and you can hit and go at any time. Li Ziyuan only 'drawn' one platoon from Zengsheng's headquarters, and among his old subordinates, more than 50 people were 'drawn' to form a company-level unit to follow his activities.

Instead of retreating to the mountains before the Japanese puppet army blocked the eastward return route, Li Ziyuan, who returned to the western part of Hubei, took his own mobile and flexible, but equipped with five 'Ting' light machine guns, which made the team quite powerful in firepower, and made a big havoc in the western part of Hubei. The pseudo-maintenance associations in the entire western villages of Hubei were dealt an almost devastating blow.

In order to avoid being surrounded by the Japanese puppet army, Li Ziyuan was active in the western part of Hubei. Take one blow and leave, and definitely not go head-to-head with the Japanese puppet army. You don't stay in one place for two days, and you don't camp in the village at night. and the tactic of jumping movements, where camping is usually carried out, at least thirty miles apart from the area of daytime activity.

At the same time as carrying out a large-scale purge of the grassroots political power of the Japanese puppet in the western part of Hubei, the work of mobilizing the masses on a large scale was also begun. On the one hand, they suppressed the hardcore 'traitors,' and on the other hand, they won over two-faced elements to create conditions for Liu Yanlai to carry out his work in the western region. And mobilize a part of the new army as much as possible to replenish their own troops.

During the operation, Li Ziyuan gave two ways out to the pseudo-grassroots officials in Hubei County, mainly the members of the maintenance associations in various townships. Either you should be duplicitous, and while ostensibly serving the Japanese puppet, you will 'privately' provide intelligence for the Eighth Route Army and provide convenience for the people who come and go. Either send you to hell and go to Lord Yama to drink tea and talk to your heart.

For those notorious hardcore 'traitors' who worked for the Japanese army with all their hearts, Li Ziyuan did not hesitate to clean them up. Bullets are used to fight devils, and Li Ziyuan will not be willing to give up bullets to deal with these 'traitors'. And in order to deter other little men 'traitors', Li Ziyuan generally used bayonets to deal with these hardcore 'traitors'.

In the Japanese-occupied area in the western part of Hubei, he purged two-thirds of the maintenance chiefs, the heads of the puppet self-defense regiments, and the directors of the five police sub-stations in the three districts. The Xuanfu squad personnel sent to the towns and villages by the Japanese puppet also allowed him to get rid of more than half. The members of the pseudo-New People's Association are the focus of the focus.

The bodies of the executed hardcore 'traitors' were hung directly on telephone poles on the side of the highway or on the trees around the 'intersection' to warn those at both ends of the road. Tell them not to have any illusions, the little devil's strength is limited, and it is not the place where the 'cross' line is still the world of the Eighth Route Army.

The entire western part of Hubei, don't look at the current Japanese-occupied area, in your eyes it is the world of the Japanese. But this is still Chinese land, and it is still a place where the Eighth Route Army can come whenever it wants. If you serve the Japanese army with all your heart, Lao Tzu will have a way to get rid of you.

In order to open up the situation in the western plains of Hubei as soon as possible, Li Ziyuan made a very fierce move this time. The local pseudo-personnel were almost frightened and frightened three times a day. The corpses that were hung on telephone poles and big trees made these puppet regime personnel such as the maintenance association abandon their posts and abscond, and some promised to work for the Eighth Road.

The sub-stations of the puppet Hubei County Police Station in several districts in the western part of Hubei, as well as the various district offices and township maintenance associations, were all damaged. The puppet Jin Nanjian**, which was stationed in the western part of Hubei, although under the strict orders of the Japanese army, mobilized a part of the troops to try to encircle and suppress Li Ziyuan's department.

However, under Li Ziyuan's one-shot tactics, he suffered a lot of losses and failed to complete the strict orders of the Japanese army. On the contrary, he was beaten by Li Ziyuandong and knocked out a lot of people. The pseudo-Jin Nanjian**, who suffered a lot of losses, could only act honestly in a group, and he didn't dare to go out at all.

All of a sudden, the 'chickens' and dogs in the western part of Hubei, which had been relatively stable under the Japanese puppet rule, fell into a serious situation of turmoil. A large number of Japanese puppet grassroots personnel were purged, which greatly weakened the Japanese puppet's control over the western part of Hubei. As a direct result, the Japanese puppet army is now carrying out grain requisition operations and is in a certain predicament.

In order to get rid of this bold Tuba Road, we will re-stabilize the situation in the western part of Hubei as soon as possible. The Hubei Japanese army mobilized a battalion of the puppet Jin Nanjian ** to strengthen a compendium squadron of the Japanese army. With the cooperation of the first pseudo-plainclothes team, the western part of Hubei was wiped out.

Tried many times to catch Li Ziyuan's department and wiped it out in one go. However, Li Ziyuan was like a loach, carrying out a large-scale 'interspersed' operation in the western part of Hubei. The actions of the south and north made the Japanese puppet army unable to achieve results in the encirclement and suppression of this small force of more than 100 people.

It was also 'pumped' by Li Ziyuan to continuously destroy the maintenance of various towns and villages in the western part of Hubei. Even on the highway from Hubei to the Changzhi 'junction' area, a small-scale ambush was fought, and a large convoy of puppet armies transporting grain to the Changzhi area was knocked out.

The western part of Hubei is an important grain producing area in the Shangdang Basin, and it is also one of the main food sources for the Japanese army stationed in Changzhi. The instability of the western plain area of Hubei, and it can even be said that it has fallen into 'chaos' and 'chaos', which directly affects the overall strategy of the Japanese army in the southeast of Shanxi Province to support the war by war. The grain collection was damaged, the collected grain could not be brought back, and even because the puppet grassroots regime was destroyed, it could not be collected at all, which made the commander of the 36th Division quite angry.

In order to eliminate Li Ziyuan as soon as possible and ensure the smooth completion of the grain collection. Imamura Shintaro Osa, chief of staff of the 36th Division of the Japanese Army stationed in Changzhi, personally arrived in Hubei and commanded the clearing of this Tuba Road. And from Ludong, Huguan, Lucheng, and Changzi counties, a large number of troops were 'pumped' and concentrated in Hubei.

But just when the chief of staff of the 36th Division, Shintaro Imamura, rushed to Hubei County to take command, preparing to carry out a large-scale cleanup of this Tuba Road. However, Li Ziyuan's unit seemed to disappear out of thin air, and it lost its trace under the noses of the Japanese army, and the reconnaissance planes and plainclothes teams dispatched by the Japanese army searched for it many times, but they did not find any trace of Li Ziyuan's department.

In order to find Li Ziyuan's department, the Japanese puppet army dispatched a large number of troops to carry out repeated dragnet sweeps in the western part of Hubei. However, although the Japanese puppet army invested heavily in the area of more than 500 square kilometers in the western plain area of Hubei, carried out a dragnet sweep and 'sweep', tossed for several days, and even penetrated deep into the Taiyue Mountain Range area in the west, it was still empty-handed.

Just when the Japanese puppet army carried out a large-scale dragnet sweep on a radius of several hundred square kilometers to the west of Hubei. At this time, Li Ziyuan, who had already jumped to the south of the Huguan to Hubei Highway to rest and recover the strength of the warrior. But he was holding a telescope and was observing the movement on the road from Huguan to Hubei.

Compared with the western plains of Hubei, the Japanese puppet army repeatedly swept the net. At present, the shallow mountainous area in the south of Hubei and Huguan is relatively calm. It's just that it is currently during the sweep of the Japanese puppet army, and the pedestrians on the highway are extremely scarce.

Li Ziyuan, who has been hiding and waiting here for two days, is quite steady in the face of the calm highway with almost no pedestrians. He brought his troops here, one was to avoid the Japanese puppet army's sweep of the western part of Hubei, and on the other hand, it was also to rest and recuperate the troops who were fighting continuously and looked quite tired.

Li Ziyuan calculated very clearly, he knew that he was currently mixing up a 'chaos' in the core area ruled by the Japanese puppet army in the western part of Hubei. It would be really strange that the Japanese puppet army did not look for themselves with their lives. Therefore, before the Japanese puppet army began to sweep the western part of Hubei and start to sweep the net, he went south in concealment and went to the shallow mountainous area at the junction of Hubei and Huguan to rest.

After resting for two days and the physical strength of the troops basically recovered, Li Ziyuan, who was unwilling to stay like this. He led his troops out to the highway from Hubei to Huguan County, trying to find a fighter. However, Li Ziyuan also made a plan, and after stabbing him, he withdrew to his old base in the eastern mountains of Hubei.

Even if the situation was unfavorable, Li Ziyuan never planned to retreat south into Huguan. In addition to the fact that he is the backbone guerrilla leader of Hubei County, even if he temporarily retreats into Huguan territory, it is equivalent to being driven away without opening the situation, which really makes him unable to straighten his waist.

Another reason is that the situation in Huguan is much more complicated than that in Hubei. There were not only guerrilla areas of the Eighth Route Army, but also areas occupied by the Japanese. There was also a part of the 40th Army on the Chongqing side, as well as a regiment of the Jin Sui Army. And whether there are his own troops in Huguan and where their troops are, he is not clear at all now.

That is to say, in addition to the enemy army here, there are friendly forces that are not friendly forces, and enemy troops are not enemy forces. On the surface, it should be a friendly army, but it can turn around and become an enemy friendly army at any time. The situation of two sides of the enemy and one country and three parties in Huguan is far more complicated than that of Hubei, which is just a situation of enemies and us.

The troops he is leading now are no more than 100 people. And the main force does not know where to withdraw now, once it encounters those friendly troops who seem to be friends but not friends, and enemies are not enemies, the result will not necessarily be better than encountering the Japanese army. If those friendly soldiers turn their faces, they won't even have a place to cry.

So even if he retreated to the junction between Hubei and Huguan now, Li Ziyuan still made up his mind. Don't easily step into the territory of Huguan, just hide and wait here. Find a fighter plane and leave, as far away as possible from the right and wrong place of Huguan. Although he Li Ziyuan is not afraid of things, he definitely doesn't want to do that kind of thing at this time to send people to the 'door'.