Although the Japanese army in Pingchuan Town had only one squad, the Japanese puppet army did not know when it was transferred to Pingchuan two Type 91 armored vehicles. These two armored cars relied on the armor on the cars, and from time to time they also cooperated with the armored vehicles in Hubei County and on the railway line, which brought great troubles to Wang Cheng's department.

Such a tactic developed by the Japanese army in the face of insufficient troops, although the number of troops invested each time was small, was very effective. It brought great trouble to Wang Cheng's department, who wanted to surround Pingchuan at the moment. In particular, the Type 91 armored vehicles, Type 92 cavalry armored vehicles, and Type 94 light tanks dispatched from Hubei are at best a tin can.

But for the backbone regiment, which does not have any anti-armor weapons in its hands and does not even have armor-piercing bullets that can be used by machine guns, it is really a big trouble. In particular, the thirteen-mm machine guns on the two Type 92 cavalry armored vehicles were a great threat to the troops.

This is a tactic developed by Tsuruta Numan along the entire Baijin Railway, when the protective forces are insufficient. He brought these old-fashioned armored vehicles from the North China Front, and even among the Japanese army, which had always been stingy, was basically in the stage of decommissioning, and at best scared the same unarmed civilians.

With the 91-type and 94-type deployed on the Baijin railway line, the road and railway dual-purpose armored patrol vehicles are specially used to protect the Baijin railway line. Anyway, these armored cars are also placed in the logistics warehouse of the North China Front. Transferred to the southeast of Jin, it's still okay to bully the Eighth Road without anti-armor weapons.

In addition, now that the first phase of the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain has ended, the forces invested by the Japanese army in the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain have been turned into the second phase of the operation of clearing out the remnants of the defeated generals. Some of the Type 94 tanks that the Japanese army had put into the Nakajo Mountains were basically useless.

Therefore, through Imamura Shintaro Osa, Tsuruta Numan transferred back a light tank squadron and a cavalry armored vehicle squadron of the 36th Division Search Wing. In addition to the old armored vehicles that were no longer usable for the frontal battlefield with the inventory of the North China Front, several mobile armored squads were formed and deployed along the Baijin Railway on the line from Changzhi to Ludong.

Tsuruta Numa's tactic, to put it bluntly, is actually very ordinary. These armored vehicles, which were only equipped with machine guns, could be easily destroyed with a 20-mm cannon, or even as long as 79 light and heavy machine guns were equipped with steel-core armor-piercing shells. But the problem is that Wang Cheng doesn't have a cannon, let alone a high-tech gadget like a steel-core armor-piercing bullet.

Wang Cheng's divisional backbone group didn't have it, and Li Ziyuan didn't have this thing. While the Japanese army invested in these old guys, they also paid considerable attention to the use of tactics. As long as I ensure the safety of the railway line, I only move along the railway line, and I will resolutely not enter the mountains anyway. I'll go out when you get to the railroad line, and if you don't touch the railroad line, then we won't disturb anyone.

This tactic is that Tsuruta Numan has only one squadron of alert troops on the entire Baijin railway line. Even in order to ensure the smooth transportation of this railway line during the Battle of Nakajo Mountain, it only added two search teams and two patchwork infantry squadrons to Tsuruta Numanan.

With such a small number of troops, Tsuruta Nunan had to keep the railway line from Jincheng, Changzhi, Hubei, Ludong, and several counties further north under the attack of the two military regions of the Eighth Route Army. He could only come up with a surprise trick to find a way to ensure the smooth flow of the railway line during the battle.

Compared with the situation that other county garrisons are still full, Hubei County has just been defeated and disarmed again because the main force of the garrison has just been disarmed. Not only did the personnel suffer heavy losses, but the equipment that had just been replenished was almost lost again. The remaining battalion of the Jinnan Jianguo Army can only ensure the safety of the grain-producing areas in the western part of Hubei and the county seat.

The Baijin Railway is in the territory of Hubei, and there is a long distance. Pingchuan is the most important stronghold along the Baijin Railway in Hubei. After some consideration, nearly half of the armored troops that Tsuruta Numan transferred back were deployed in the territory of Hubei. As a result, these rags really played the role he hoped to play.

Wang Cheng, who was very uncomfortable by these Japanese armored vehicles, made up his mind to defeat these nasty armored vehicles first. If you don't knock out these armored vehicles, your own attack is likely to be messed up. In this matter, Wang Cheng was somewhat dissatisfied with Liu Yanlai.

When did the two Type 91 armored vehicles of the devil be transferred to Pingchuan Town, and there was no information in this regard at all. When the basic regiment arrived on the battlefield, it was discovered that the devils had actually concealed two armored vehicles in Pingchuan, and at least four armored vehicles had been deployed in Hubei County.

These old-fashioned, tin box-like armored vehicles are a bunch of garbage in the face of any army with even the lightest anti-tank weapons. But these old-fashioned armored vehicles have caused a lot of trouble for themselves, who are not even short of ammunition.

Wang Cheng's side had a headache with these thin-skinned armored vehicles of the Japanese army, and he never made a move in the direction of Pingchuan. Li Ziyuan, who was active along the Baijin Railway north of Pingchuan, did not have so many scruples. He mobilized the militia of the three districts in the eastern part of Hubei, as well as mobilized a large number of people.

Advancing westward from the stronghold of Luoma, a large-scale sabotage war was launched on the Baijin Railway in Hubei. Of course, the so-called sabotage, to put it bluntly, is to dismantle the rails on this railway. Although Wang Cheng encountered the 91 and 95-type highway and railway dual-purpose armored vehicles, Li Ziyuan also encountered them.

Moreover, the Japanese army had obviously made certain preparations tactically, and the number of these two armored vehicles he encountered exceeded that of Wang Cheng, who was in charge of fighting in Pingchuan and the Baijin railway line south of Pingchuan. The only difference is that, apart from these two types of dual-purpose armored vehicles, he did not encounter the Type 92 cavalry armored vehicles encountered by Wang Cheng and the Japanese Type 91 armored vehicles.

Wang Cheng encountered the Japanese armored forces in the direction of Pingchuan, but Li Ziyuan didn't care. For him, these did not even have weapons, and the hull was so small that the accompanying Japanese soldiers could only sit in the armored car outside the car, and the threat was not so great. And he himself has a way to deal with these two armored vehicles of the Japanese army.

These things can't go up the mountain, they don't have weapons, as long as they knock on the infantry behind them, the remaining Iron King Eight has eight hands, and there is no way, so Li Ziyuan doesn't care much about these armored vehicles. Because he had no intention of going toe-to-toe with these armored vehicles on the railway line.

However, considering the value of the Baijin Railway, Li Ziyuan did not destroy the railway at the first time, but waited patiently for the passage of the Japanese military train, wanting to reap a little benefit. For him, it is not a matter for the Japanese army to increase the number of ironclad cars patrolling the railway line, and it is not a big deal for the Japanese puppet army to strengthen the vigilance along the line.

The problem is that in addition to implementing the strategic intentions of his superiors and solving a batch of raw materials for the arsenal, he also made some benefits for himself. The old chief is right, when the battle of Zhongtiao Mountain over there is over, the devil will definitely take revenge on himself. I have to stock up on some weapons and ammunition to make some long-term plans for the future.

As for the puppet army in the Qiaokou stronghold retreating back to Pingchuan, it was not a big deal for Li Ziyuan. If he makes some moves on the Baijin railway line, he may be able to make a snake out of the hole and transfer out part of the Japanese puppet army that has retracted into Pingchuan, which can be regarded as relieving the pressure on the old chief's side.

So after stationing in the direction of Luoma, Li Ziyuan immediately entered the vicinity of the railway line with a company. Standing on the hill on the side of the railway line, looking at the several armored vehicles newly transferred by the Japanese army on the railway line, full of Japanese infantry constantly patrolling back and forth, Li Ziyuan showed a strange smile on the corner of his mouth.

Seeing a weird smile on the corner of Li Ziyuan's mouth, Ma Yongcheng next to him said a little creepy: "I said Lao Li, can you tell me what plan you have, your smile is also a little too penetrating, and my heart is a little hairy when I see it." Even if it's fat, your brother won't show such a smile. ”

Li Ziyuan didn't answer him, and He Sanliang, who was also holding a telescope next to him, replied to Ma Yongcheng's words: "Instructor, you don't know this." The devils have now mobilized so many ironclad vehicles, and the density of patrols is so large. It was the devil who strengthened the garrison of this railway because of the current war situation in Jinnan. ”

"I heard that the divisional cadre regiment encountered more Japanese armored vehicles than us. The more the devils strengthened the garrison of this railway line, the more it showed the importance of this railway for the devils to fight in southern Jin. Perhaps large quantities of military supplies, or weapons and ammunition, would have to pass through the railway. The battalion commander must be thinking about how to make a good deal of it right now. ”

Regarding He Sanliang's evaluation, Li Ziyuan put down the telescope in his hand and said with a smile: "The one who knows me is also old." The devil is now concentrating so many troops in the Nakajo Mountain area, and the amount of ammunition required for this must be very large. The number of devils' trucks is small, and strategic supplies mainly rely on railway lines. ”

"Although there is a Nantongpu railway in the southern part of Jinnan, this time the devils are in full fire in southern Jinnan. A single Nantongpu line may not be able to support such a large-scale battle of the devils. Therefore, although this Baijin Railway is a narrow-gauge railway, the devil will definitely not use it. ”

"The most important thing is that relative to us, the Taiyue Military Region in the west is located directly behind the Zhongtiao Mountain battlefield, and their position is more important than ours. The higher authorities ordered us to attack the Baijin Railway, and they would definitely order the troops of the Taiyue Military Region to also carry out a sabotage war against the Nantongpu Railway Line. ”

"Although the scale is not very large, the Japanese army wants to disperse the pressure on supplies, and will definitely transfer some materials through the Baijin railway line. In this way, it is also an opportunity for us. Since the divisional backbone group has shouldered the heaviest burden for us at the moment, then we just have our hands free and toss a good hand on this Baijin line. ”

"I'm not a very demanding person, so I'll be content to get us more weapons and ammunition to stockpile, and more medicine for the wounded. The superiors have put so much burden on us, and they have also sent the sub-district backbone group to us, so we are sorry for ourselves if we don't take the opportunity to get more benefits. ”

Regarding Li Ziyuan's plan, Ma Yongcheng and He Sanliang could only look at each other and smile bitterly. However, as for Li Ziyuan's idea of taking this supply line of the Japanese army in the southeast of Jin, as well as the lifeline of plundering the resources of the southeast of Jindong, as his own supply line, the two of them had no different opinions with Li Ziyuan.

In fact, neither of them knew that Li Ziyuan had to get more weapons and ammunition to prepare for the next step against the Japanese army's retaliatory sweep. He wants to toss the Japanese troops on the Baijin railway line, and there is another reason that he can't say. That is the disappearance of Liu Cui's family, Li Ziyuan sprinkled all his anger on the devil's head in a helpless situation.