This is He Sanliang, who usually seems to be taciturn, but not only handles the work of the headquarters in an orderly manner on weekdays, but also always fills in the gaps when it is critical. For Li Ziyuan, who is accustomed to opening and closing, he can always provide you with the most valuable alternative ideas at key places at critical times.

He Sanliang's words fell, and Ma Yongcheng thought for a while and said, "Lao Li, should we stop going south first?" I think this information, the military region must have received the same. Let's take a look at what adjustments the military region will make in this change in the enemy situation before making a decision? ”

Ma Yongcheng waited for a while, Li Ziyuan shook his head without thinking about it and said: "Old horse, there is no turning back when you open the bow." The fighter plane is fleeting, and if we wait, the enemy will probably run away. Let's compete with the old fox in Jincheng now who can resist the pressure of the last five minutes. Now it is necessary not only not to stop, but also to speed up the march of the troops. ”

"In this way, Lao He, you immediately telegraph your plan to the military region and the fourth division, and the political commissar who stayed behind in our division. And the main force of our army has moved south to the south of Jincheng, and make a report to the military region. All telegrams, all sent by urgent telegrams. ”

Li Ziyuan's voice fell, and He Sanliang nodded directly. With the flashlight turned on by the guard, he began to draft a telegram on the spot. After the drafting was completed, three triangles were drawn directly on the telegram. When he finished drafting and wanted Li Ziyuan to take a look, Li Ziyuan shook his head and motioned for him to hand it over directly to the cavalry correspondent and send it out as quickly as possible.

Wait until the cavalry messenger turns over and rushes to the location of the radio station. Li Ziyuan dragged his mount, turned over to his horse, and said to He Sanliang: "Tell the troops, get rid of all the pots and jars except ammunition, and stick them straight into the south at the speed of a forced march." ”

In accordance with Li Ziyuan's order, the troops lost all their luggage except for weapons and ammunition. The original rapid march was changed to a forced march to bypass Jincheng and go straight to the southeast of Jincheng. When the troops passed through Jincheng, there were bursts of gunfire and neighing of people and horses from the south of Jincheng.

Liu Lianming, who sent reconnaissance, rushed back panting and reported that the Japanese puppet army in the direction of Jincheng had now begun to break through to the south. A regiment of fraternal troops, which was monitoring the direction south of Jincheng, was now blocking it with all its might. However, the actions of the Japanese puppet army were quite ferocious, the fraternal units themselves were short of ammunition, and the number of recruits in the troops that had just completed the expansion was large, and now they were fighting quite hard.

After listening to Liu Lianming's report, after Li Ziyuan and Ma Yongcheng and He Sanliang beside him glanced at each other, they all had an idea in their hearts, that old fox was really fast enough. Thinking of this, Li Ziyuan said to He Sanliang: "We went south to rush to the scheduled combat area, and now it's too late." ”

"In this way, you and I will each take one road and insert it directly in the direction of Jincheng. I'll go to the fourth division, and you go to our division. There is also Lao Ma, you take the Ludong Independent Battalion, and immediately attack Jincheng from here, no matter what, you must take Jincheng to cut off the enemy's retreat before the Japanese puppet army finds that something is wrong and retreats. ”

After a brief and concise deployment, Li Ziyuan took his own mount and rushed towards the direction of the march of the troops of the fourth division. After catching up with the troops of the Fourth Division, Li Ziyuan unfolded their finished glyph without saying a word, and rushed straight towards the place where the gunfire rang out. The rest of the troops were given simpler orders, and when there were gunfire, they fired there.

He Sanliang caught up with Liu Haishan's troops, with the Ludong Second Independent Regiment as the vanguard, and the whole army made a 90-degree turn, and struck in the place where the gunshots rang out. The troops led by He Sanliang received the same orders as the troops of the Fourth Division, and they fired there when there was gunfire.

The troops who received the order, under the leadership of Li Ziyuan and He Sanliang, walked directly towards the place where the guns rang out. And behind them, Ma Yongcheng took an independent battalion and rushed directly towards Jincheng County at the speed of a forced march.

Here, Li Ziyuan led his troops to forcibly intersperse in the direction of the breakthrough of the Japanese puppet army in Jincheng, and when he encountered a small group of Japanese puppet army, he did not entangle with it at all, and once he encountered a blockade, he directly used firepower to open the way. The Japanese puppet army that blocked the attack did not pursue it when it withdrew, but just rushed towards the place where the guns rang out.

Just when Li Ziyuan made a ninety-degree U-turn, a regiment of troops that was fighting fiercely with the Japanese puppet army that broke through was in a bitter battle with the Japanese puppet army in front of him. The puppet army, which was eager to break through the encirclement, with the cooperation of the Japanese army, launched an attack on the entire battalion regardless of the casualty figures.

One wave was repulsed, and before the blocking troops could catch their breath, another wave of the enemy rushed up. Under the cover of light and heavy machine guns, the offensive was launched in turns, which did not give people a breather at all. The artillery battalion directly under the puppet Sixth Front Army and the Japanese artillery did not care about the shell consumption figures at all, and the dense shells blew the front of the blocking troops into ruins.

More than 30 heavy machine guns, more than 200 light machine guns, and grenadier canisters fired so dense that the blocking troops could not even lift their heads. With only five heavy machine guns and ammunition added up to less than a base number, the blocking force could only rely on rudimentary fortifications and even constant white-knuckle combat to fight the puppet army of the department.

In order to break through the face-to-face resistance as soon as possible, the boss Mazi, who was eager to get out, transferred the special service group of his headquarters, the teaching group for training grassroots officers, and such a heart-warming and precious unit. Except for a pistol battalion, almost with all its might.

In the end, he was born as a veteran miscellaneous army general, and this guy's ability to control the troops is obviously higher. Especially these troops who are now breaking through in Jincheng are all his hardcore descendants. Although this man regards the troops as his life, he can't care about anything in this stall where the head of the nest is not as good as gold.

One was anxious to break through, and the other was desperate not to let break through, and the two armies fell into a bitter battle around the Hewa and Zhuangke lines southeast of Jincheng. In less than half an hour after the battle began, the two palm-sized villages were almost razed to the ground by the artillery fire of the Japanese puppet army, which did not hesitate to consume ammunition.

By the time Li Ziyuan arrived, the ammunition had almost exhausted the embers, and the blocking troops, which had already suffered one-third casualties, had almost been pressed to the last line of defense by the crazy enemy army. At this time, another regiment deployed in the direction of Jincheng and Yangcheng had not yet had time to arrive.

Seeing that the situation of the blocking troops was quite critical, Li Ziyuan couldn't care about anything else. Direct troops, immediately rushed up from the flank of the Japanese puppet army that broke through the encirclement. Among them, Li Ziyuan personally commanded a battalion, which went straight into the artillery positions of the Japanese puppet army. And He Sanliang, who arrived later, quickly took over the blocking force that had been consumed a lot of vitality, and launched a comprehensive counteroffensive from the front.

The gunfire, which had subsided slightly as the ammunition of the blocking force ran out, resounded in a dense explosion. In the middle was also the shouts of attack from both sides, the sound of fighting, and the continuous loud sound of charging horns. By the time the first dawn in the east came, the ground was already in a scuffle.

The pseudo-Seventh Division, which broke through from Jincheng, was the most hardcore descendant of the commander-in-chief, and it fought quite tenaciously in the battle. may know that if they don't defeat the Eighth Route reinforcements in front of them, they will have no way out, and even under the supervision of the officer, they started an offensive battle with Li Ziyuan's department.

Although the Japanese army was not much, there was less than one brigade. The rest were some heavy soldiers and sappers, and even some armed expatriates. But in the end, it is the unit of the regular division of the Japanese army, and its combat effectiveness is not at the same level as that of the 14th Independent Infantry Brigade.

When this Japanese army came up, it fell into battle with the two battalions of Liu Haishan's main force. The two armies, both of whom were red-eyed, did not care about the casualty figures at all. One has always been known for its tenacious will to fight, and has always looked down on the Chinese army. One of the two armies who never knew what defeat was and thought that Lao Tzu was the best in the world came up with a tough encounter.

The two sides first fired at each other at 500 meters, then swept each other at 300 meters, and then threw at each other at 70 or 80 meters*, and finally came to a large-scale melee with bayonets in full swing. An unprecedented white-knuckle battle not only made the Wang Puppet Seventh Division dumbfounded, but even the troops of the Fourth Division who rushed over were dumbfounded.

However, the troops of the Fourth Division were stunned for a moment, and then under the supervision of cadres at all levels, they pounced on the puppet army in front of them. Li Ziyuan, who had a rod in his hand, had not only disrupted the formation of the Japanese puppet army breakthrough force in front of him at this time, but even his own troops.

When I received a few requests from cadres, should I slow down and reinstate the system? After a hard battle, Li Ziyuan, who had defeated the protective forces of the Japanese puppet army and had already captured the artillery position of the Japanese puppet army, frowned and said, "What other system is there in this stall?" The sound of gunfire is an order, and where there is gunfire, there is an enemy, just shoot there. ”

"Tell the troops, don't be afraid of sacrifice, let alone be afraid of the establishment being disrupted, in a word, you must dare to win in chaos. As long as this Wang puppet Sixth Front Army headquarters and the Seventh Division are not allowed to run out, it will be a victory. No one is allowed to blow the rallying trumpet for me, so I just keep fighting. I'd like to see who will have the last laugh in this chaotic battle. ”

Hearing Li Ziyuan's order, several cadres shook their heads helplessly. And on the battlefield at this time, except for light machine guns, heavy machine guns and all artillery have fallen silent. When I don't know if I have killed and injured many enemies or my own people, no one dares to use this weapon of mass destruction.

On the battlefield at this time, apart from the explosions of bayonets and rifles and *, all that remained was the shouts of both sides. From Hengling, south of Jincheng, to the two small villages of Zhuangke and Hewa, which are located at the top of the blocking line, the front is more than 10 miles long from east to west and more than 20 miles wide from north to south.

When the other blocking force located in the southwest of Jincheng finally arrived at the battlefield south of Jincheng, they were directly dumbfounded when they saw the current scene. It's just that when the regiment was about to join the battlefield, it was stopped by Li Ziyuan. Looking at Li Ziyuan, who was holding a telescope in front of him and observing the situation on the battlefield, the commander and political commissar of this regiment did not understand what he meant.

No matter what the two who came to ask for instructions on the combat mission, Li Ziyuan's answer was to rest and be on standby. At most, it's just one sentence, you're not yet on the line. Li Ziyuan's answer made the two of them a little annoyed, but they were helpless. They are not as bold as Li Ziyuan and dare to fight without orders.