After Li Ziyuan finished speaking, the lieutenant's face couldn't help but turn red. Some unconvinced, he defended himself: "Sir, we are prisoners, but how do you know that we have no resistance?" We lost the battle, but you can't look down on us so much. These brothers, weren't they captured after the troops were defeated and scattered, and the hungry couldn't even walk? ”

"We don't know how this battle was fought, as soon as this gun sounded, the entire Nakajo Mountain was full of devils. We didn't even know which direction the devil came from, and all wired and wireless communication with the commander was cut off. The devils came up and broke down our chain of command, and the entire Nakajo Mountain was in chaos. ”

"My artillery company was ordered to move its position, and when it was local, I found the position designated by the commander, and there were devils everywhere. One of our regiments, which we had been ordered to cooperate with, was crushed by a barrage of shells from the flanks before it could be deployed. Even our company was directly surrounded by devils in a valley. ”

"There was no way, the brothers could only throw away the guns that they couldn't take away, and break through with only a dozen rifles. finally broke out, only to find that the commander's headquarters and troops were all overwhelmed. In addition to the fact that there are devils everywhere, there are no troops to be found at all. ”

"I wandered around Nakajo Mountain for three days, but I couldn't break out of the encirclement of the devils. When they were discovered by the devils who searched the mountain, the brothers were so hungry that they couldn't even walk, and when the devils rushed over, they couldn't even lift their guns. Most of these thousands of brothers were like this when they were captured. This battle was lost, but we have never been ambiguous about fighting devils. ”

Regarding the lieutenant's defense, Li Ziyuan just smiled faintly and said, "Okay, then let me see what you are capable of." More than fifty of you remained, and the rest immediately followed the men I sent out to the mountains. You hold on for a while and wait until it's eating in the mountains. I don't have that much food for you people. ”

After that, Li Ziyuan turned his head and handed over to Liu Lianming, and after taking these prisoners into the mountains and handing them over to Liu Yan to resettle, he first sent the dry food in his hand to the dozens of artillerymen. Wait until these dozens of artillerymen hastily fill their stomachs. Li Ziyuan took these dozens of prisoners and dragged the captured artillery towards Wang Cheng's headquarters on the periphery of Pingchuan.

When they arrived at the outskirts of Pingchuan Town, Wang Cheng's headquarters. Seeing the mountain cannon brought by Li Ziyuan, as well as a machine gun and dozens of boxes of shells, Wang Cheng's eyes straightened. He also heard the dense gunfire on Li Ziyuan's side before. It's just that his troops were pinned down by the Japanese puppet army and armored vehicles that rushed out at the same time in Hubei and Pingchuan.

The Japanese army has always fought every deployment, and it is not an isolated operation. This time, Li Ziyuan ambushed the Japanese train, but was ambushed by the Japanese backhand. Tsuruta Numan dispatched almost all the Japanese puppet troops in Hubei County, and under the cover of armored vehicles, adopted the tactics of internal and external flanking attacks on the backbone regiments on the periphery of Pingchuan.

The Japanese puppet army's action against the basic regiment this time was to contain the basic regiment. With armored vehicles as the forerunner, multi-way interspersing is constantly implemented. Although the backbone regiment that was attacked by the enemy on its back repelled the flanking attack of the Japanese puppet army, its own troops were also pinned down by the actions of the Japanese puppet army. Although he heard the unusually dense sound of guns and cannons on Li Ziyuan's side, he was unable to draw troops to reinforce him.

I'm still worried about whether Li Ziyuan will suffer a big loss. When he saw a mountain cannon and a 20-millimeter machine gun brought by Li Ziyuan, Wang Cheng couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief while relieving his heart. After inquiring about the battle situation on Li Ziyuan's side, Wang Cheng nodded and patted Li Ziyuan's shoulder.

After asking the lieutenant if the machine gun could deal with Japanese armored vehicles, he received a positive answer. Wang Cheng smiled and said: "I'm worried about how to deal with those tin boxes of devils, you kid has solved the biggest dilemma for me now." With this small cannon, Lao Tzu has nothing to worry about. ”

Speaking of this, Wang Cheng turned his head and said to Li Ziyuan: "Don't be idle, you kid, go back immediately to organize the troops and launch a sabotage battle against the Baijin Railway." This time, your kid suffered a loss, which can be regarded as a long memory. Don't always think that devils will always be led by your nose, these devils play tricks, and they are no worse than you. ”

"This time, you kid was lucky that you didn't directly use both companies on the first line. When the devil counterattacked, he also left a back hand to save the situation. The main force regiment newly transferred from the division also contained the Japanese puppet army in Ludong. Otherwise, I think you kid will have to suffer a bigger loss in this battle. Okay, these people will stay for now, and I'll decide what to do with them when I'm done with them. ”

After receiving a criticism, Li Ziyuan didn't care. I really made a mistake in my calculation this time, and I almost didn't let the devil bite back. The old chief's criticism was also right, and this battle was indeed a lesson for himself. I played too smoothly before, ignoring that the devil can also play yin, and playing yin is no worse than playing by myself.

This time, if it weren't for the Japanese puppet army in Ludong in the north being entangled, the main force of the 36th Division would still be in the Zhongtiao Mountains in the south. With the Japanese army's practice of cooperating with operations from multiple routes, it is strange that he did not hurt his muscles and bones this time. Just as the old chief said, this time he was still a little luckier.

If it weren't for the terrain restrictions, he didn't put all the two companies on the line. If the devil is coming to a squadron and He Sanliang's roundabout troops are entangled, then the consequences of this battle will be completely different. Looking back on this battle from the beginning, Li Ziyuan is a little afraid.

But even if he was lucky this time, one of his companies was disabled again, and the second company also suffered more than ten casualties. This is a lesson that I must remember. With such a small amount of capital, I can't afford to toss too much. Li Ziyuan thinks that he is indeed a little blind this time.

However, Li Ziyuan, whose head turned quickly, added the soldiers to the more than 1,000 prisoners. If you can mobilize 100 people from this, then you can not only make up for the casualties in this battle. The most important thing is to be able to re-complete your own shelf. As for how to mobilize these people, Li Ziyuan still muttered a little.

I don't even have an establishment, and I don't have any military salary. In the eyes of many people over there, it's not even a team. People think they are regular troops, and they look down on these dirt roads that don't even have a number. When I wanted to drag He Sanliang to myself, I put a lot of effort into it. Even if he only needs to be a soldier and not an officer, these guys don't necessarily buy it.

However, although the officers didn't even think about it, those veteran oilers themselves also had certain concerns. But these recruits among the thousands of captives can still think about it themselves. I just don't know how many recruits among these thousands of captives can make their own moves. After going back, I have to let He Sanliang find out.

As for the ideological mobilization work, Ma Yongcheng will train those militias. The ideological mobilization method of this guy, which has a bit of pyramid marketing momentum, was applied to this group of prisoners. I don't want much, and I can't afford to support Hubei too much. One hundred and eighty people, that's enough.

After making up his mind, he gave Wang Cheng the mountain cannon and the small cannon plus a mortar, as well as the artillery temporarily collected from the prisoners. Li Ziyuan did not stay here for long, and immediately rushed back to the battlefield with his own troops and began to carry out sabotage operations on the Baijin railway line. Li Ziyuan, who suffered a lot of losses, temporarily threw the idea of taking advantage of it to the back of his mind.

Fortunately, the surrounding Japanese puppet army was attracted by Wang Cheng in Pingchuan. Li Ziyuan temporarily merged the disabled 1st Company and the 2nd Company. Almost all the militia in the mountainous areas in the eastern part of Hubei was mobilized, as well as the three district squads, which were gathered together and temporarily incorporated into the troops. Covering the mobilized villagers, they carried out a large-scale sabotage attack on the Baijin railway line north of Pingchuan.

With the cooperation of those two train drivers, Li Ziyuan knew how to attack the railway more conveniently. After removing the screws at the rail connections, a large section of the rail was pulled off the roadbed by pulling the mobilized donkey. At present, the railroad tracks, which have become the main raw materials of the Eighth Route Army Arsenal, will naturally be sent to the military region and handed over.

But for sleepers, Li Ziyuan was not so polite. The sleepers are set up horizontally and vertically, and a fire is directly burned. The technicians sent out by the arsenal to cooperate before were also driven back by Li Ziyuan with a large lifting rod into the observation hole, and after blinding the two drivers, the two captured Japanese Type 95 road and railway dual-purpose armored vehicles were driven back crookedly.

These two armored vehicles naturally can't afford to survive, but the engines of these two armored vehicles can be described as quite a good power system for military production. And those carburized steel armor on the body are also good military raw materials. At least not much worse than rail steel, which is in some properties.

By the time the Japanese reinforcements drawn from Ludong, together with the remnants of the squadron that had been defeated by Li Ziyuan, finally broke through the Ludong Independent Battalion and some of the troops of the main regiment newly transferred from the division, and arrived at the scene of the continuous resistance launched along the way, the scene was already a mess.

A train that had also been dismantled and burned to an iron frame with all the usable parts removed, was left alone on the railway line where the front and rear rails had been torn down and the sleepers had been burned. The inside of the boilers at the front of the two cars was also blown up by throwing grenades. If the Japanese army wants to restore this railway, I am afraid that it will take a lot of effort.

And just when Li Ziyuan was under the cover of the Ludong Independent Battalion in the north and the main force of the division, he sabotaged the Baijin Railway north of Pingchuan. Wang Cheng's basic regiment also launched an attack on Pingchuan. Wang Cheng used a battalion and reinforced the 20-mm machine gun to pinn down the Japanese puppet army in Hubei County.

The two battalions of the main force, under the cover of that mountain artillery, launched a general attack on the Japanese puppet army in Pingchuan Town. Although the commander of the artillery company who was temporarily captured was taken prisoner, the technical level of this artillery did have a hand. Under the cover of the light and heavy machine guns of the basic regiment, he fired the mountain artillery close and flat, knocking out the fortifications of the Japanese puppet army in Pingchuan one by one.

These so-called fortifications were indeed very useful against the Eighth Route Army, which had no artillery. But with the participation of artillery in the battle, the effect is immediately two different things. Although this Shanghai-made 75 mountain cannon is already old, not to mention that it cannot be compared with the Japanese army's better-performing mountain artillery, and even with the 41-type mountain gun, which has now become the Japanese army's wing gun, there is still no problem in dealing with these fortifications.

Under the full cover of the light and heavy machine guns of the basic regiment behind him, he pushed the cannon to a distance of more than 100 meters from the Japanese puppet army fortifications and opened fire, destroying the Japanese puppet army's fortifications one by one. The attacking troops covering the backbone regiment smoothly passed through the open area on the periphery of Pingchuan and quickly passed through the blockade ditch outside Pingchuan.