It's just that Li Ziyuan didn't know what direction the headquarters was transferred to, so he chose to bite the tail of the Japanese army in front of him quietly. Using this Japanese army's desire to find and capture the headquarters, he helped him find the headquarters organs in uncertain locations.

But the Japanese army who set off from this village also frightened Li Ziyuan. Not to mention the strength of an infantry brigade, it also carried a squadron of heavy machine guns, two infantry guns, and six mountain guns, and there were hundreds of pack horses alone. Despite the ruggedness of the mountain road, the speed of travel is quite fast.

It's just that in the current situation, not to mention a brigade of the Japanese army, there is a wing of the Japanese army in front, and Li Ziyuan can only stubbornly lead the troops to follow carefully. It was only not long after the departure that He Sanliang, who was following Li Ziyuan with the second company, looked at the several enemy planes flying extremely low in the sky and almost grazing the mountain.

He Sanliang, who was suddenly startled in his heart, hurried to Li Ziyuan's side in a few steps and said: "Battalion commander, I'm afraid that the headquarters organ has been discovered by the Japanese army, and it may even be bitten by the Japanese army." If you look at the Japanese planes flying in the sky, they almost just flew over the mountain. This means that their target is in front, so they lower their altitude and prepare to attack. ”

Before Li Ziyuan could answer He Sanliang's judgment, the correspondent sent back by Liu Lianming in front also reported that about a large group of Japanese troops in front had already opened up their formation and opened up the fighting posture, and accelerated their march not far from the northwest. And the artillery accompanying him also began to unload the mountain guns on the pack horses.

Hearing the report, Li Ziyuan hurriedly opened the map with He Sanliang. After He Sanliang marked the location of his troops, Li Ziyuan's hand pointed to the northwest and slid all the way until he stopped in a mountainous and forested area that was no more than three miles away from him. After glancing at He Sanliang, who was also looking at the map in front of him, he said in unison: "Cross Ridge? ”

Thinking of this, Li Ziyuan put away the map as quickly as possible, turned on the nose of the machine with the fast and slow machine in the holster on his waist, turned his head and said directly to He Sanliang beside him: "Old He, our two soldiers are divided into two ways." Your brother is here to deal with the Japanese artillery, and I took the first and third companies to forcibly approach the direction of the cross ridge and plunge directly into the back of this Japanese army. ”

Time was urgent, He Sanliang didn't care about anything else, and also pulled out his pistol and said: "After my side takes out the Japanese artillery position, I will insert it along the flank of the Japanese army according to the situation, and strive to penetrate directly into the southeast direction of Cross Ridge to open a passage for the headquarters organs to break through." ”

Before Li Ziyuan could nod, a dense sound of gunfire suddenly sounded on the side of Cross Ridge, as well as the sound of aerial bomb explosions that could be clearly heard by both of them. Hearing the sound of gunfire coming from there, Li Ziyuan shouted directly in his heart, it must be the breakthrough operation of the headquarters, which was discovered and blocked by the Japanese army.

Thinking of this, Li Ziyuan nodded to indicate that he agreed with He Sanliang's opinion, and took the first company and the third company directly to the mountain on the right. Regardless of whether the Japanese troops under the mountain would find out their whereabouts, they forcibly advanced directly in the direction of Cross Ridge. In order to speed up the march, Li Ziyuan simply ripped off the camouflage on his body.

It's reached the point where it's about to engage the enemy, and it's still a fart. How to bypass the Japanese artillery positions as quickly as possible, go straight behind the Japanese troops in front, and create conditions for the headquarters organs to break through is what Li Ziyuan needs to do most at the moment. As for other things, Li Ziyuan can't take care of it at the moment.

And He Sanliang also commanded his second company and rushed towards the Japanese artillery position. For a veteran like He Sanliang who had rolled in the bloody battle in Linyi, he knew too well the threat of Japanese artillery. Especially when the entire battlefield was so dense that it was impossible to distinguish even a single point, He Sanliang knew that these artillery soldiers were threatening a large headquarters.

From the position where the Japanese artillery is located at the moment, its fire coverage can block the cross ridge area and break through the pass in both the north and west directions. Moreover, the entire route that could be marched on the Cross Ridge was almost all within the fire coverage of the Japanese artillery group. The Japanese artillery group was enough to make the breakthrough troops pay a rather heavy price.

Although He Sanliang also knew that the Japanese artillery deployed by the Japanese army around him that he could solve was at most a small part. Although it can only solve part of the problem, it will still reduce the pressure on the headquarters. Even if it can't slow down the attack speed of the Japanese army, it can at least reduce the pressure on Li Ziyuan in front.

Here, He Sanliang made up his mind that even if the second company was exhausted, he would also destroy the Japanese artillery position at the foot of the mountain. Li Ziyuan, on the other hand, loaded two companies of bullets, unscrewed the safety cover of the grenade, and forcibly advanced in the direction of Cross Ridge despite the obstruction of a small alert force of the Japanese army.

When Li Ziyuan rushed to the southeast of Cross Ridge with two companies, he saw that the Japanese troops on both flanks were swarming to attack in the direction of Cross Ridge. The Japanese planes in the sky were also constantly circling to drop bombs and strafe. The headquarters personnel who were breaking through on the cross ridge were limited by the terrain but could only follow the narrow path and desperately break through on the mountain road.

The rain of bullets from the Japanese ground and air firepower fell on the crowd that broke through, and people were constantly blown up and flew up, and the stumps and severed arms fell again. Horses carrying documents and machines also ran all over the mountains under the fire of the Japanese army. The Japanese heavy machine guns on both flanks swept the bullets into the breakthrough route of the headquarters personnel.

And at this moment, the people on the cross ridge who have not yet broken through are still in the dark. In Li Ziyuan's binoculars, there are not only the chiefs, comrades-in-arms, and classmates of the party school and Kang Da that he is familiar with, but also a large number of intellectuals with glasses, as well as female students of Lu Yi and female soldiers of the theater troupe and newspaper with panicked faces.

Seeing the scene in front of him, Li Ziyuan's eyes turned red. With a quick and slow machine in his hand, he took two companies with grenades and light machine guns to open the way, and launched a flanking attack on the back of the Japanese troops who were outflanking in the direction of Cross Ridge. Launched a desperate attack. Since the battle has reached this point, Li Ziyuan can't care about the ammunition consumption at hand at all.

For Li Ziyuan at the moment, how to open a breakthrough channel for some of the headquarters personnel who are breaking through in his direction as soon as possible is more important than anything else. Li Ziyuan led two companies of troops to kill behind the Japanese army, concentrating firepower and troops to break down the three blockade lines of the Japanese army in a row.

But just before the fourth blockade line, which was also the last blockade line of the Japanese army to Cross Ridge, Li Ziyuan was a little unable to attack. The Japanese concentrated a few light and heavy machine guns and mortars to block the entire mountain pass in an airtight airtight manner. The troops tried to assault several times, but were suppressed by Japanese fire.

Listening to the sound of gunfire on the side of Cross Ridge in the northwest, it was so dense that I couldn't even tell a point. Li Ziyuan gritted his teeth, called He Huizhang and Liu Lianming over, and said, "Lao Tzu, no matter what method you two dog days use, knock out the devil machine gun position in front of Lao Tzu." ”

When he looked at Li Ziyuan's order, his eyes were red. He Huizhang didn't say anything, reached out and dragged Liu Lianming's binoculars, and with his grenadier hand, he inserted the grenade carried by the soldiers around him into the bullet bag on his body.

Quickly climbed to the side of a terrain that was extremely rugged, but could overlook the Japanese blocking position, and it was also the only hill around that did not have Japanese troops. This hill, which was just right to restrain the troops from charging in the direction of Cross Ridge, was a cliff in front of it, and it was impossible to build a position at all, so the Japanese army did not deploy troops on this hill.

Seeing He Huizhang climb the mountain with a few soldiers, Li Ziyuan immediately understood what he meant. Hurriedly organized three machine guns, as well as the remaining grenadier canister, to suppress and attract the fire of the Japanese troops on the opposite side, and create the most favorable conditions for the operation of He Huizhang.

And He Huizhang, who climbed up the mountain, carefully judged the enemy situation with Liu Lianming's telescope after going up the mountain, and quickly calculated the required shooting Zhu Yuanhou. Immediately twisted the leggings into a rope and let several fighters lower themselves from the cliff facing the Japanese army.

In the middle of the cliff, He Huizhang put one foot on a small foothold on the cliff, and the other foot forked in a oriental cypress that grew along the cliff. Using his knees as the support point for the launch, he directly smashed all the Type 89 grenades he was carrying on his body at the fastest speed.

With several explosions, several light and heavy machine guns used by the Japanese army to block the mountain pass were immediately blown up in half. Taking advantage of the reduction of Japanese firepower, Li Ziyuan didn't care to see if there were any accidents with He Huizhang on the cliff. Grabbing the fast and slow machine in front of you that has been connected to the holster, it is a sweep past.

With a series of guns and bayonets, he rushed towards the oncoming Japanese soldiers with pieces of grenades. Before leaving, the five boxes of grenades approved by the chief of staff were a great help to him at this time. Otherwise, in such a continuous battle, the grenades he carried would have been exhausted long ago.

Facing Li Ziyuan's unit who rushed up, although the Japanese troops in front of him were half dumb with light and heavy machine guns, their strength was only one or more pairs. But for Li Ziyuan's department who rushed over, he was not afraid to meet him with a rifle. The two sides are slammed together.

Under the cover of Guo Xiaoshan's almost 100-shot marksmanship beside him, the fast and slow machine in Li Ziyuan's hand, plus the shell gun in exchange for the chief of staff guard, the two guns were used in turn. With Liu Lianming's direct platoon beside him, the cross-cooperation was like a sharp knife with an open blade, and it stabbed into the formation of the Japanese army.

The soldiers behind Li Ziyuan also held their bayonet rifles and fought with the Japanese soldiers in front of them with bayonets. The entire mountain road, along with the slopes on both sides, was full of bloody battlefields, and the bayonet became the only option for this kind of close combat. However, Liu Lianming's platoon is equipped with a large number of shell guns, which also take advantage of a lot in this kind of close combat.

In addition, although the Japanese puppet army has a large number of troops, some of the puppet troops participating in the war have poor combat effectiveness. Although under the supervision of the Japanese army, there was no situation of collapse at the touch of a button. But in this kind of hand-to-hand combat, his performance is also quite poor. But the problem is that the Japanese puppet army has a steady stream of reinforcements, but Li Ziyuan's side can only rely on the existing strength at hand to fight hard.

Especially at present, Li Ziyuan only has two companies in his hands, and when he broke through the three Japanese defense lines in front, he also paid a lot of price. As soon as the gunfire rang out here, the surrounding Japanese troops also rushed to reinforce here. Li Ziyuan soon felt the heavy pressure, and the Japanese troops around him fought more and more, as if the Japanese troops around the entire Cross Ridge had rushed here.