Li Ziyuan, who was eager to reinforce He Sanliang, did not expect that before he could lead the team to Nanguan, he would meet He Sanliang halfway. As batches of evacuated troops rushed back one after another, seeing that He Sanliang and the troops led by him did not suffer any losses, Li Ziyuan's heart completely landed.

In fact, the commander of the Changzhi Independent Battalion, who acted with He Sanliang, had more experience in fighting guerrillas than Li Ziyuan. After the gunfire on Li Ziyuan's side began to shift, he understood that Li Ziyuan had begun to retreat. Although the two fought separately, for the experienced man, he could judge the development of the battle situation by the sound of gunfire.

So when Li Ziyuan began to retreat, he had already started with He Sanliang to prepare to start retreating. It's just that He Sanliang insisted, and before Li Ziyuan withdrew twenty miles, he had to continue to insist. Until the gunfire on Li Ziyuan's side became farther and farther away, they immediately adopted a posture of alternate cover, retreating to the southwest while fighting.

It's just that what they fought with was the so-called pseudo-iron-blooded troops who originally guarded the freight yard. Although they adopted the tactics of surprise attack, they concentrated their forces and firepower and inflicted serious casualties on this puppet army. But this puppet army was not dispersed on the spot like an ordinary puppet army.

Even when He Sanliang was preparing to retreat, regardless of the loss of more than half of the remaining troops, he suddenly counterattacked and tried to entangle He Sanliang to death. In order to cooperate with the reinforcements who rushed over, they planned to wipe them out in one go. This puppet army is indeed just like what the commander of the Changzhi Independent Battalion said, not only has extremely strong firepower, but also has quite high combat effectiveness.

Such a puppet army, to be honest, He Sanliang has fought for so many years, and it is the first time he has encountered it. The fierceness of his combat effectiveness almost made him think that he was fighting against the Japanese army. If it weren't for the fact that he was clearly wearing the military uniform of the puppet army, and the words he spoke were also Chinese, it would have been really difficult to distinguish whether this was the Japanese army or the puppet army.

Although defeated before, there was no chaos and he was always stubbornly resisting, and now he dared to launch a counterattack after learning that reinforcements were about to arrive. The strength of this puppet army did bring great trouble to He Sanliang. has organized retreats many times, but has never been able to get rid of this reverse puppet army bite.

Fortunately, He Sanliang and the battalion commander of the Changzhi Independent Battalion are both experienced people. Especially the commander of the Changzhi Independent Battalion who has been operating in the core area of the Japanese puppet army in the southeast of Jin. If it is said that he fights a regular positional war, his ability is worse than He Sanliang.

However, he has been operating in an environment where the enemy is strong and we are weak for a long time, and how to deal with this situation is his strength. Fighting once you have fought and leaving if you can't fight is the essence of guerrilla warfare. As a local armed force, its combat effectiveness may not be comparable to that of the old army. But in this environment, there is no problem in how to get rid of this puppet army.

And He Sanliang also knew his weaknesses, and he did not take care of everything in this regard, and handed over all the command of the troops to the experts to deal with. Seeing that He Sanliang handed over all the command problems to himself, knowing that the troops were not retreating in time, the battalion commander who was afraid that he would be dumplings by the Japanese puppet army was not polite.

After taking over the command, he immediately took a step forward to resist. The rest of the troops, taking advantage of their familiarity with the terrain, adopted the method of dispersed retreat in multiple ways with companies and platoons as formations. Before more Japanese puppet reinforcements arrived, the troops did not even drop a single bullet, and finally got rid of the pursuit of the Japanese puppet army.

Although they also paid some casualties under the pursuit of the Japanese puppet army on both sides, the large army was still brought out intact. In this battle, Li Ziyuan gave them reinforced mortars and a heavy machine gun, which played a great role. It was He Sanliang's rapid fire with mortars to disperse the latest Japanese puppet army that came for reinforcements, so that the troops basically withdrew safely.

The Japanese puppet army, which got rid of the pursuit, completely withdrew and reassembled in a small village southwest of Changzhi, and then came over according to the gunfire from Li Ziyuan's side. After seeing that He Sanliang and the others had completely withdrawn and did not suffer major losses, Li Ziyuan was truly relieved.

After the convergence, Li Ziyuan didn't care about listening to the report, and immediately concentrated his troops in the northwest direction of Changzhi City, and quickly evacuated along the Zhuozhang River to the mountainous area. After entering the mountainous area, Li Ziyuan avoided the Japanese puppet army's stronghold in Machang, and jumped back to the Laoding Mountain area to hide and wait.

After returning to Laodingshan District, he saw that the captured weapons and ammunition were rich and surplus in addition to supplementing his own shortage, and the battalion commander and political commissar of the Changzhi Independent Battalion couldn't close their mouths together. The price paid for this battle was not too big for the Changzhi Independent Battalion, but what could be captured was far more than the two of them had imagined before.

After this battle, the Changzhi Independent Battalion not only obtained five light machine guns at once, but also captured more than 200 original Type 38 rifles, as well as Jin-made 65 and 79 rifles. Tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition were also seized at once, completely solving the situation of insufficient weapons and ammunition that he was facing.

With this batch of weapons, they can not only supplement their shortcomings, but even have some ammunition and weapons reserves in their hands, which makes these two realize that their waists are much stiffer all of a sudden. I don't have to look at Li Ziyuan's weapons and equipment, I can only be greedy here.

As for the weapons and ammunition seized this time, Li Ziyuan is also very generous. In addition to leaving some ammunition and two light machine guns to supplement his consumption this time. The rest of the captured ammunition and machine guns, especially the heavy machine gun, were left for the Changzhi Independent Battalion. He didn't need so much and couldn't carry them all, so he simply gave them all away at once.

Li Ziyuan ignored the leaders of the brother troops who had made a fortune and were elated, and turned to look at the few days of solo activities, and the team around him was twice as large. Not only are they now equipped with two light machine guns, but also a Meiji 38-style heavy machine gun, five Kawasa-sakuka machines, and Jin-made or Gong-made rifles that everyone has in their hands.

Even this guy got a short and concise one, Rao is Li Ziyuan is also well-informed, and he didn't see that it was the mortar that was made. This mortar Li Ziyuan is also only from the caliber, and it feels like it is made in Japanese 81 mm caliber. Judging from these weapons and recruits, this guy seems to have made a fortune during this period of time when he was acting alone.

Seeing Liu Lianming's wealthy appearance at the moment, Li Ziyuan was not polite. All the recruits they developed this time were transferred, and twenty veterans were transferred to fill his gap. All the recruits, along with the surplus weapons, were transferred to other companies that were lacking.

However, Liu Lianming, this guy, was a little distressed when he saw that most of the troops he pulled out were transferred. Although Li Ziyuan left him all the Sichuan Flower Machine, as well as the light machine guns, and adjusted twenty veterans for him, the corners of Liu Lianming's mouth twitched a few times.

Looking at the painful expression on Liu Lianming's face, Li Ziyuan kicked him with some hatred and said, "Give you weight loss, don't look like you kid is in pain." The nature of your troops, I told you a long time ago. Do you think that with the combat mode I have prescribed for you, you can catch up with the strength of two companies, and you can meet the requirements of flexible mobility and hit-and-run? ”

"Your company is lean, flexible, and with so much equipment and formation, can you kid run? Have you ever seen the unit that asked for detachments to operate in detachments, carrying heavy machine guns everywhere? I'm already very generous with that mortar for you. Also, you still have a mission right away, how do you fight with so many recruits? ”

Hearing Li Ziyuan's reprimand, Liu Lianming scratched his head honestly and said, "Detachment leader, look at what you said, where am I so stingy." I still remember the three disciplines and the eight points of attention very clearly. Aren't we reluctant to have so many recruits, but everyone is here for us. ”

Liu Lianming's explanation, Li Ziyuan rolled his eyes and said: "But this time your kid performed well, and after going out of the mountain for such a circle, not only did not reduce the number of personnel, but also expanded the team, and got so many weapons and equipment." Supposedly, Lao Tzu should give you some praise. However, I also want to ask you, I sent someone to look for you before I left the mountain, why did you kid arrive? ”

"I haven't heard from you for so long, I thought you kid was made dumplings by devils and puppet soldiers. If you hadn't finally shown up today, I'd have sent someone to Hubei to look for you again. Usually you're always hanging around, and you haven't felt anything yet. You're not here, and you really feel a little constrained. ”

When he saw Li Ziyuan say this, the expression on his face was somewhat dissatisfied. Liu Lianming hurriedly said: "Detachment leader, you have wronged me." The correspondent you sent found us at dusk the day before yesterday at the junction of Huguan and Hubei. I received the order, but I rushed over without making any stops. ”

"Even a group of puppet regime personnel who were caught had no time to educate, so they could only summarily kill the two heinous criminals and release the rest on the spot. We're not the kind of people who receive orders and have to discount them when they are executed. However, on the way, in order to avoid some of the Japanese troops from Ludong to reinforce Changzhi, it was only a little delayed. ”

"Detachment leader, this time I jumped out of the outside to fight, I didn't take too tough measures like you did last time. I pondered for a moment, these traitors are difficult to solve at once. Especially those little traitors below, you can kill him, and some of the people are crying out for him. ”

"On the first day of the trip, I thought about it. These traitors are killed, and the devils will choose new candidates. Moreover, some traitors were forced to do it by devils, and some were pushed up by the common people, and they couldn't help themselves. It's really worry-free to chop it with a knife, but the problem is that there is no way to solve the problem completely. ”

"As long as the devils still want to control the Japanese-occupied area, if we kill one, they will choose someone again. In this way, if we kill some traitors, it is easy to arouse the disgust of the common people. After all, although they say that they do things for the devils, they can sometimes protect the people. ”

"I came up with a way to take the bookkeeping method. Each of these traitors kept an account for them, and those who helped us do things made a note for them. If you do bad things to devils, give them a note. When the accumulation reaches a certain level, we are calculating the general ledger. ”

"I don't have much culture, and we don't have the eloquence to educate these traitors. Let's just come directly, you have done too many bad things for the Japanese puppet army, then don't blame us for being polite. If we only deal with devils and those hardcore traitors, and help us do things in private, we will not only not kill them, but also give them a certain reward. ”