After defeating the puppet army guarding the Nanguan freight yard, according to Li Ziyuan's prior deployment, the Changzhi Independent Battalion immediately developed from Nanguan to Changzhi City. Of course, their actions were just a bluff, distracting the attention of the Japanese puppet army in Changzhi City, and creating conditions for the Beiguan battlefield that had not yet started. And cover the small number of mobilized masses and find a way to transport out a batch of grain.

Before leaving, Li Ziyuan repeatedly told them that the posture must be fully stretched, but they must not really attack the city. The commander of the Changzhi Independent Battalion is an old fritter in this regard, although Li Ziyuan is a little verbose, but he is still very confident in grasping the scale.

The reason why he was a little verbose when he deployed was because it was not his own unit after all. The two armies as a whole are still very strange. After a few days of cooperation, although it is not as unfamiliar as the original, it still does not reach the point that Li Ziyuan wants. In terms of the tacit understanding of combat cooperation, he was worried that some problems would arise.

Moreover, the Changzhi Independent Battalion is a unit of the four divisions, and the two units are not even formed together. It is a sharp knife inserted in the chest of the puppet army of Changzhi Japan by the Fourth Division, and it has always been the fist unit of the Fourth Division. If you get someone else to the edge, it will be a little difficult to explain to the brother troops.

However, Li Ziyuan's worries are somewhat redundant, at least for now. The battalion commander of the Changzhi Independent Battalion has persevered in an environment where the enemy is strong and we are weak all the year round, and he has long been trained in this area, and he is very accurate in grasping the wedge point and the battle situation. If they hadn't been sure, they would have been wiped out by the Japanese army long ago.

The Changzhi Independent Battalion was the first to start, alarming the Japanese puppet army in the entire Changzhi City. The captain of a Japanese army who commanded the defense of the city immediately mobilized all the remaining troops in Changzhi City that could be mobilized, and launched a counterattack in the direction of Nanguan under the cover of fierce artillery fire.

Compared with the first two sneak attacks, the Japanese puppet army in the city reacted a little slowly. The speed of the Japanese army in Changzhi City this time can be described as quite fast. The Changzhi Independent Battalion here has not completely resolved the battle in the Nanguan Freight Yard, and the Japanese puppet army in the city over there has already responded. The gunfire on the side of Nanguan has not completely ended, and the Japanese puppet army in the city has already been killed.

In the face of the counterattack of the Japanese puppet army in the city, the Changzhi Independent Battalion was deployed along the Nanguan Freight Yard on the spot, and fought fiercely with the counterattacking Japanese puppet army. The commander of the Changzhi Independent Battalion is extremely experienced, his ability to grasp the battlefield is also quite good, and his ability to organize the battlefield is also very strong.

Since Li Ziyuan assigned him the task of entangled the Japanese puppet army that counterattacked. He did not fight the Japanese puppet army that counterattacked, and fought the front. Instead, they adopted the mode of retreat, counterattack, and alternate operations. gave full play to his advantages in close combat and night fighting, and launched a tug-of-war with the Japanese puppet army that counterattacked in Changzhi City along the Nanguan Freight Yard.

When the Japanese puppet army counterattacked, he adopted the method of retreating step by step, putting on a posture of preparing to withdraw when the situation was not good. When the Japanese puppet army felt that they were about to take the Eighth Road, they had driven out of the Nanguan Freight Yard and wanted to close it. He also concentrated his forces to fight the puppet army that cooperated with the Japanese army.

His somewhat scoundrel tactics made the Japanese soldiers in front of him feel like they couldn't tear it off if they were glued to it, and they couldn't drive away the dog skin plaster. wants to concentrate troops and firepower to eliminate this dirt road, but people don't fight with you at all, just like a donkey pulling a mill to pull you around.

They want to outflank and encircle this dirt road, but they can always take the first step. As soon as your enclosure is set up, they put on a slippery stance. When you turn around, he keeps organizing small groups of troops to touch you in the ass. You can't fight it, and you can't drive it away.

The delay in solving this very cunning dirt road in front of him made the Japanese commander in charge of the command a little urgent. The division headquarters was in the city, and the division commander was watching from behind him. If the battle cannot be resolved for a long time, how can this make you explain in front of the division commander?

was made by the rogue tactics of the Changzhi Independent Battalion, and the Japanese commander who was as big as a fight and thundered violently. At this time, he didn't care about the superiors not being allowed to leave the city pass, as long as he dragged this eight-way force and waited for the mobile force to return to help. After being attacked by the Changzhi Independent Battalion again, he concentrated his forces and chased it down.

As a result, this pursuit, he left Changzhi City farther and farther. When this Japanese captain who was bent on completely destroying the Tuhachi in front of him chased him out for more than ten miles in one go. Behind his buttocks, in the direction of Meridian Gate Station, north of Changzhi City, a dense burst of gunfire suddenly rang out.

And as time passed, the sound of gunfire not only did not subside, but even gradually shifted to the city of Changzhi. The sound of gunfire in the direction of Beiguan made the captain, who was bent on performing in front of the division commander, be stunned all of a sudden. immediately understood that he had fallen for the trick of transferring the tiger from the mountain in front of him.

It's just that when he reacted, he wanted to draw troops from the chasing soldiers back to help Beiguan, but he found that he was now in front of him, and once again he was entangled like eight fishes, and he couldn't get out of it at all. And the mobile troops over there have not been able to come over for a long time.

And at this moment, in his hands, he concentrated almost all the mobile forces in the city for Changzhi, except for the guard troops of the division and regiment headquarters and the guard troops of some key departments in the city. He was entangled in the southeast of Changzhi, and Li Ziyuan, who launched an attack in the north of the city, could completely let go of his hands and feet to fight.

Li Ziyuan's attack was officially launched when the gunfire began to shift from the Nanguan freight yard. Before, Li Ziyuan just took advantage of the attention of the Japanese puppet army in the entire Changzhi City, and was once again attracted by the direction of the Nanguan Freight Yard. A number of small-scale infiltrations were carried out to gradually push the front southward little by little.

It wasn't until his main attack company had already touched the perimeter of the Meridian Gate Station that he officially ordered the attack. Li Ziyuan, who personally commanded the Meridian Gate battlefield, commanded the troops to launch an attack on the Meridian Gate Station and Beiguan at the same time under the cover of the mountain artillery. and used the explosives converted from more than 100 kilograms of fertilizer powder handed over by Liu Lianming to blow up the gate of Changzhi City.

Li Ziyuan lacked qualified sappers in his hands, but there were a few soldiers in the Changzhi Independent Battalion who worked in the mines before the Anti-Japanese War. Before leaving, Li Ziyuan specially asked these soldiers from the Changzhi Independent Battalion to use as professional demomen.

In Li Ziyuan's opinion, letting these soldiers serve as infantry is really too condescending and wasteful. And after taking a lot of benefits from Li Ziyuan, the commander of the Changzhi Independent Battalion, who was a bit soft-mouthed, did not hesitate to let people go. Li Ziyuan used these people to form an engineer squad and gave them all the explosives in his hands.

These fighters were experts in playing explosives in the end, and they played a very crucial role at a critical time. Although these fertilizer powders were used as explosives, the power was still somewhat weak compared to standard military explosives, and Li Ziyuan lacked a fuse and detonator in his hands.

But these fighters used grenades as firing devices to modify more than a dozen explosive packs. A company under the cover of light and heavy machine guns and mortars in Li Ziyuan's hands smashed the small garrison force under the North Gate, and blew up the North City Gate into the sky as soon as the attack was launched.

The city gate was blown up, which meant that the attack route had been opened, and Li Ziyuan, who was originally interested in attacking Changzhi City, did not hesitate at all. Immediately commanded the troops, taking advantage of the fact that most of the defenders of the North Pass were transferred to the South Pass, and launched an attack on Changzhi City.

After breaking into the city of Changzhi, Li Ziyuan launched a feint attack in the direction of the 36th Division. But the attack on the regimental headquarters of the 36th Division was nothing more than Li Ziyuan's bluff. Li Ziyuan's real focus of attack was the ammunition depot located at the location of the Fire God Temple on the North Street of Changzhi City.

did not take advantage of the situation to directly attack the regimental headquarters of the 36th Division, Li Ziyuan thought about it very clearly. Defeating the regimental headquarters of the 36th Division and killing a Japanese lieutenant general was quite tempting for him. But although this temptation was great, it did not make Li Ziyuan get carried away.

Judging from Liu Lianming's report, at present, there are not only four heavy machine guns but also a reinforced squadron of two 92 infantry guns around the regimental headquarters of the 36th Division to serve as a defense. Moreover, after their first two sneak attacks on Changzhi City, the Japanese army urgently built a large number of fortifications along the 36th Division headquarters and erected an electrified barbed wire.

In this case, a strong attack may cost too many casualties for yourself, not to mention, and it is easy to be stuck by the Japanese army. Once the reinforced Japanese army arrives to recapture Beiguan, then he will become the one who catches the turtle in the urn. Therefore, Li Ziyuan only fired a few shots at the regimental headquarters of the 36th Division, and then aimed directly at the ammunition depot of the Japanese army located in the Fire Temple.

Li Ziyuan targeted the ammunition depot of the Japanese puppet army, or for some of his own reasons. The captured shells, after several battles, were now running out. It's hard to sustain even a skirmish without supplementing. Now that the city of Changzhi has been attacked, it is no problem to get some shells from the Japanese ammunition depot out of the idea that we have what the devils have.

After arriving at the ammunition depot of the Japanese army at the Fire Temple, Li Ziyuan directly ordered an attack. For the Japanese troops who were holding their strongholds and trying to resist stubbornly, Li Ziyuan, who knew that he had little time to use, directly ordered to use the mountain cannon and the few remaining shells to open fire and shoot directly.

Li Ziyuan's plan was very clear, if he could use artillery shells to solve the defenders, it would be better to reduce casualties and save time than a strong attack. Even if the shell misses and falls into the ammunition depot, and the ammunition depot is directly detonated, it is a big deal that he will come for nothing.

It doesn't matter if you can get the ammo or not, but I don't want to leave you behind. At the moment, trying to solve the defenders of the ammunition depot in the shortest possible time, and not wasting time on them is the most important issue. As for the issue of ammunition, it depends on Zhou Tong's technical level.

Sticking to the ammunition depot of the Fire Temple, the Japanese army who were originally preparing to rely on the existing fortifications to resist. I didn't expect this eight-way to dare to fire directly outside the ammunition depot. A small group of Japanese troops who also tried to hold on to the two pillboxes to resist stubbornly were killed and wounded by the two guns of this mountain gun. The flat fire of the 75-mm mountain artillery was still quite a threat to such non-permanent fortifications.

After the two pillboxes were all blown up, the few remaining Japanese troops were no longer able to hold on to the ammunition depot of the Fire Temple. The remaining dozen or so Japanese troops could only retreat to a room in the ammunition depot to resist. An attempt was made to block the eight-way access to the ammunition depot with two light machine guns, as well as rifle fire.