Compared to Li Ziyuan, who took out so many weapons and ammunition at once, it was a very painful feeling. The battalion commander named Zhang Zijian was delighted. If it weren't for the unhappy expression on Li Ziyuan's face, he really wanted to pounce on Li Ziyuan and kiss Li Ziyuan a few times.

Li Ziyuan didn't take care of Zhang Zijian, who was very happy after getting cheap, but talked with He Sanliang about the marching route roughly. With the cooperation of a reconnaissance staff officer sent by the division headquarters, he led the troops to rush towards the general location of the headquarters at present. Although he was very anxious in his heart, Li Ziyuan, who was afraid that there would be a large number of people left behind, did not dare to march forcefully.

Faced with the slow speed of action, Li Ziyuan was troubled in his heart. But he didn't have the slightest way to change the situation. With the current state of this army, he really didn't dare to come to a forced march. If you fall behind too much, the impact will be great.

In order to enhance the combat effectiveness of this battalion as soon as possible, as well as the technical and tactical level of the battle. He temporarily incorporated the dozens of remaining men into this battalion, with the soldier as the squad leader, the squad leader as the deputy platoon commander, and the platoon commander as the deputy company commander. Except for Zeng Sheng, who stayed at the division headquarters to recuperate from his wounds, Wang Changfeng temporarily replaced the deputy battalion commander.

As for He Sanliang, he was entrusted with an important task by Li Ziyuan and temporarily served as his staff officer. Fortunately, at this time, no one cares too much about the change of position. In the case of promotion and no wealth, the problems of the position can generally be promoted or demoted. In the face of Li Ziyuan's temporary adjustment, Zhang Zijian even took the initiative to adjust his cadres.

However, the readjustment of cadres does not mean that combat effectiveness can be improved immediately. Looking at the troops advancing step by step, Li Ziyuan shook his head, I really hope that the superiors can give themselves three days to rectify this army. But is it really appropriate to let this new formation of troops go into battle now?

In order to increase the combat effectiveness of the troops as much as possible, at least before encountering the enemy. Although the situation was urgent, Li Ziyuan still used the limited time on the road to carry out certain offensive and defensive drills after discussing with He Zijian. Although there are not many such opportunities, Li Ziyuan still seizes all the time to train these recruits.

It's just that the situation is developing, and not everything is as it should be. Just when Li Ziyuan was seizing the last time to hone this force, he was trying his best to speed up the march so that he could get closer to the headquarters as soon as possible. An accident changed the course of the whole event. Whether Li Ziyuan was willing or not, this new battalion finally threw itself into a tough battle.

And the beginning that changed the direction of the whole incident was even more unexpected by Li Ziyuan. When he joined the team led by Liu Lianming on the periphery of the headquarters, he only cared about the excited two people, and no one expected that a storm was coming towards them. And this storm was originally aimed at the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, which had just escaped from danger, but it happened to collide head-on with Li Ziyuan.

In a small mountain village and when the siege was first broken, he stayed on the Cross Ridge to attract the attention of the outflanking Japanese army. As a result, they did not expect that after Li Ziyuan broke through, the Japanese army lost interest in pursuing this small force. After mobilizing a large number of troops to pursue Li Ziyuan and the breakthrough troops of the headquarters, the encirclement under the cross ridge has basically collapsed.

The Japanese army lost interest in this small unit, but Liu Lianming, who originally thought that the whole army would be destroyed, became the easiest unit to break through. After Liu Lianming jumped out of the cross ridge, he met the deputy commander-in-chief and the deputy chief of staff as he moved in the northwest direction.

Under the circumstance that there were not many covering troops in the headquarters organs, Liu Lianming's team was temporarily incorporated into the headquarters guard company. During this time, he had been following the activities of the headquarters organs, and it was not until he re-met Li Ziyuan that he left the headquarters organs to find his own troops because the headquarters breakthrough troops had rediscovered the special service group.

I didn't expect that as soon as I left the headquarters, Liu Lianming, who met Li Ziyuan less than thirty miles from this operation, was naturally quite excited to see Li Ziyuan. And Li Ziyuan was naturally quite happy to see Liu Lianming, who had always been considered one of his right and left hands, at least he didn't have to worry about reconnaissance anymore.

It's just that Liu Lianming didn't know that as soon as his team left the small mountain village hidden by the headquarters, they were targeted by a Japanese army less than ten miles away. And this Japanese army is the last trump card of Tsuruta Numan in addition to the previous Mashiko Advance Team and the Okawa Advance Team.

Compared with just a full set of imitations of the Eighth Route Army, there were also two other advance teams with a lot of traitors mixed in the team. This Japanese advance team, which has been secretly training since its formation, is the core force that Tsuruta Numan has created, and it is also the last killer weapon.

This advance team was not only equipped with the latest 100-style submachine guns that had just been developed by the Japanese army, but only a small number of them were distributed for actual combat experiments, all Czech-made rifles, and Danish light machine guns for both light and heavy uses. All but the submachine gunners were each armed with a Southern-style submachine pistol with a capacity of sixteen rounds.

The entire team was also equipped with two Type 97 sniper rifles, which were rare on the Chinese battlefield. Compared with the other two advance teams, this Japanese advance team can almost be said to be armed to the teeth, and it is more elite in both training and equipment. With the exception of grenadiers, all Japanese-made weapons are up-to-date.

The biggest feature is that compared to the other two branches, only the backbone and the officers can speak Chinese. It is also necessary to incorporate a large number of traitors to act as translators in order to operate in the advance team of the Eighth Route Army's base area. This advance team, which has been training in secret, is all Japanese soldiers who are proficient in the southeastern dialect of Jin.

Moreover, this Japanese army was not only familiar with the operational characteristics of the Japanese army itself and the operational characteristics of the Eighth Route Army, but also received special training in mountain warfare, and even received airborne training. It is also equipped with some special equipment suitable for mountain warfare, such as a grenadier projectile cable. This team was personally trained by Tsuruta Numan and was a truly top-secret team that was not willing to be used.

After the annihilation of the two advance teams, under the supervision of Lieutenant General Jing Guan, who did not give up. Tsuruta Numan took out this last trump card, and after parachuting into the base area in the southeast of Shanxi, he personally commanded the search for the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, thinking that his previous mistakes would atone for his crimes.

Let those non-combatants of the Eighth Route Army, who were almost captured, run away from under their noses, and Tsuruta Numan suffered the strictest reprimand. This time, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army and the headquarters of the 129th Division were continuously captured and attacked, and all ended in failure.

Although most of the objectives of the sweep were completed, the ultimate goal was never captured. Lieutenant General Matsuiwa Yoshio, commander of the First Army, who personally arrived at Changzhi Castle to command, and Lieutenant General Iseki, commander of the 36th Division, were quite dissatisfied. There are even a considerable number of people who point the finger directly at Tsuruta Numasu.

In desperation, although Tsuruta Numan believes that this force is far from being ready to be dispatched. But under the strict reprimand of his boss, he could only be transferred out in advance, and seize the time to find and destroy the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army that slipped away from Cross Ridge at one time.

Lieutenant General Iguan told Tsuruta Numan very bluntly that the sweep of the southeast of Jin was coming to an end, and there was not much time left for him. If, within the specified time, he is unable to completely eliminate the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army and solve the problem of southeastern Shanxi for the First Army once and for all, he will be subject to the most severe military sanctions.

Lieutenant General Yoshio Matsuiwa was unable to complete the tasks assigned by the army headquarters for him one after another. And most of the energy was tied to a small unit of the Eighth Route Army. And forgetting the main tasks assigned to him by the division and even the army headquarters is already unbearable.

In desperation, Tsuruta Numan could only transfer this last advance team, which he had been training with his own hands, to Taihang Mountain, and under his own command, he once again tried to capture the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army. This advance team of 120 people was formed by exhausting his efforts and using a lot of connections.

Among them were not only several graduates of the Nakano School assigned to the 36th Division, but also Japanese spies who had been lurking in the southeast of Shanxi Province before. Those special weapons, such as the latest Japanese army's 100-style submachine gun, were also requested from the base camp in the name of trial.

He was really a little uneasy about this advance team, which had condensed a lot of his hard work and even used all the connections he could use, to form and train himself to be commanded by others. In the end, he decided to personally command this advance team and fight in the next step in the Taihang Mountains.

However, the Taihang Mountains are not the largest mountain range in China. The problem is that Japan is too large for its size. When he received the order, Tsuruta Numan was still going crazy in Shexian County, looking for Li Ziyuan who disappeared there, as well as the headquarters of the 129th Division who also disappeared in Shexian County.

And this advance team was airborne to the Taihang Mountains, even if Tsuruta Nuanan was exhausted, he would not be able to arrive at the first time. At the moment, he is in charge of an army lieutenant, and this army lieutenant has just graduated from Nakano School. Although he can speak fluent Chinese, he has no combat experience.

This lieutenant was able to become a captain because after training at Nakano School, he could speak Chinese quite fluently. And before entering Nakano School, he was a graduate of the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School and one of the first officers of the Japanese Army to be trained in airborne operations. It's just that after finishing airborne training, this guy was admitted to Nakano School again.

But although this guy has been learning, there is a key problem, this guy has never been on the battlefield. The most serious thing is that he has no experience in fighting the Eighth Route Army. Except for the things he learned in the classroom, this guy has been training and training even though he has been in China for nearly a year.

The Japanese are notoriously rigid, and Tsuruta Numa is no exception. When he selected and assembled the advance team, he did not choose officers who had spent a long time in the Chinese theater but were reserve soldiers or graduates of the infantry school of the North China Front, which were regarded as miscellaneous in the Japanese army.

Instead, they stubbornly chose graduates of the Army Non-commissioned Officer School, but such graduates are often promoted the fastest under the current situation of the Japanese Army's large-scale expansion. There aren't many options left for Tsuruta Numa. The main reason why this guy was able to become a captain was that he was a graduate of Nakano School and had airborne combat training.

When Liu Lianming left the headquarters to look for his troops, he was catching up with the advance team whose commander had not yet been in place, and he had already quietly used his professional mountain combat training to skillfully avoid the outer defense line and find the approximate location of the headquarters.