So after making up his mind, Li Ziyuan did not return to the Ludong area, and waited for the wind to be less tight before dispatching, but chose to go west and do the opposite. In order to worry that the Japanese army, which had strong technical ability, would judge his position through radio activities, Li Ziyuan did not send any telegrams after sending a telegram to the military sub-district.

Compared with Li Ziyuan, who was retreating rapidly to the west, the current surroundings of Changzhi City were tight. After being attacked for two consecutive nights, the result of heavy losses in the garrisons around Changzhi made Lieutenant General Jingguan furious. All the Japanese troops in the surrounding counties of Changzhi, including Hubei, were transferred back.

Leaving the puppet army to stick to the stronghold, concentrating all the Japanese troops that could be concentrated, and taking a dragnet-style sweep around Changzhi. However, at this time, he did not know that Li Ziyuan's headquarters had been transferred to the Japanese army in the western Tunliu territory, and the focus of the sweep was still placed in the border areas of Hubei, Changzhi, Huguan, and Ludong counties, especially in the mountainous areas around Changzhi.

At the same time, he ordered the Japanese troops who were currently in the territory of Licheng to enter the territory of Hubei from Licheng on the spot. Construct a new blockade zone centered on the town of Pingcheon. The Japanese troops in Wuxiang and Lucheng were ordered to advance to the Ludong area. Order the Japanese puppet army in the Huguan area to quickly block the border between Huguan and Changzhi.

After successively issuing orders for the redeployment of the Japanese army, Lieutenant General Iseki personally issued extremely strongly worded orders to the intelligence officers of the Japanese puppet army in several counties. The pseudo-plainclothes teams in each county are required to find this dirt road at all costs.

Changzhi, where the division headquarters is located, was attacked twice in a row, and the two Japanese and puppet intelligence systems in Changzhi City did not react at all. This made Lieutenant General Jing Guan, who was currently suffering heavy losses, extremely dissatisfied. For the inaction of the intelligence system, he has even reached the point where he can no longer bear it.

Although the secret service of the 36th Division performed very well in the previous sweeps. It not only deciphered the communication code of the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army in Taihang Mountain, but also accurately captured the transfer reversal of the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army. However, in the attack on Changzhi, it did not show the expectations of the 36th Division at all.

Not only did they never find out the true identity of the attackers, but they even never found out the whereabouts of these Tubalu when they attacked Changzhi City. Regarding the performance of the intelligence agencies in this attack, and even a little numb, Lieutenant General Jing Seki was extremely dissatisfied. This time, a death order was given to the intelligence agencies, either find the eight ways or replace them.

This lieutenant general who vowed to dig three feet into the ground in the entire Changzhi area, he would find out Li Ziyuan's department. On the one hand, they forced the intelligence agencies to act, and on the other hand, despite the fact that their blockade line had not yet been closed, the troops returning from the Taihang Mountains had not yet arrived in the designated area. He used the troops that had been mobilized to carry out a dragnet-style sweep in the mountainous areas around Changzhi.

In addition to the Japanese puppet army and Japanese puppet agents everywhere in the Shangdang Basin, the Japanese army formed a rapid mobile force with cavalry, more than 20 trucks, and two light tanks. As long as the gun goes off over there, the mobile unit of this Japanese puppet army will definitely arrive within half an hour.

The Laoding Mountain Area, which is only five kilometers away from Changzhi City, has become the first place where the Japanese puppet army focuses on sweeping and suppressing. The Laoding Mountain Area, which has a radius of more than 40 square kilometers, was almost turned over by the Japanese puppet army. In the words of Jing Guancheng, even a mouse must be found for him.

It's just that the Japanese puppet army mobilized a large number of troops and repeatedly swept and cleared the Laoding Mountain, but they didn't find Li Ziyuan's shadow at all. Although the Japanese puppet army swept extremely carefully, every hill was sieved. But the problem is that Li Ziyuan's department has not been found, and where is the Changzhi Tuba Road, which should be hidden in this mountainous area.

The three-day sweep did not catch anything, so that the lieutenant general Jingguan Yan, who was like thunder, personally ordered the plainclothes captain of the Changzhi puppet army to be shot. But shooting a plainclothes captain is a little easier, but the problem always needs to be solved. Just when the empty-handed Japanese troops who swept the Laoding Mountains turned their attention to the sweeps in the southern mountains of Changzhi, Li Ziyuan had already decided to make a move.

Lieutenant General Jing Guan, who cast a net everywhere to find the attack on him, did not know, and outside the city of Changzhi under his nose, there was a company under Li Ziyuan's department. Liu Lianming, who led the reconnaissance company, with the cooperation of the personnel sent by the Changzhi Independent Battalion, was secretly waiting in a village outside Changzhi City.

The work on the enemy situation of the Changzhi Independent Battalion can be described as quite good. Outside, the Japanese puppet army turned the entire mountainous area around Changzhi City upside down. And Liu Lianming took his company, and he was hidden under the nose of Jing Guan, and there was no exposure for three whole days.

Even if the Japanese puppet army sent a large number of plainclothes spies, they were not able to find them and hid them under their noses, and they were even less than three kilometers away from Changzhi City, close to Liu Lianming along the highway from Changzhi to Hubei. During the concealed standby period, although there was a lot of fire outside, Liu Lianming was very calm.

At the same time, Li Ziyuan, who was transferred to Tunliu, was also staring at the changes in the enemy situation outside Changzhi City. When the Japanese army, which had found nothing, transferred back the sweeping troops from the Laoding Mountains, turned its attention to the south, and transferred some of the troops that had been transferred back, and began to sweep towards Ludong and Hubei. Li Ziyuan, who had been waiting in concealment in the Fushan area, knew that it was time for him to make a move again.

Just when most of the Japanese puppet army in Changzhi City went south and spread out to the territory of Donghu North with a force of one part. Li Ziyuan, with his own troops, as well as the Changzhi Independent Battalion, which had been following him all along, quietly avoided the various strongholds of the Japanese puppet army along the line, and appeared outside Changzhi City to join Liu Lianming's headquarters.

In the past three days, Liu Lianming has already touched the latest deployment of the Japanese puppet army inside and outside Changzhi City with the cooperation of the Changzhi Independent Battalion's inner line in the city. In particular, the Japanese puppet army inside and outside Changzhi City, the key points of defense and firepower allocation, as well as the vigilance forces deployed at important targets such as Ziwumen Station, Huoshenmiao Ammunition Depot, and Nanguan Freight Yard.

Although the Japanese puppet army strengthened the control of the entire Changzhi City, the streets and alleys of the city were full of Japanese puppet plainclothes. But Liu Lianming was still cautious, and through a small gap in the city wall that was not known to outsiders and could enter and exit Changzhi City, he entered Changzhi twice to reconnoiter the enemy's situation. By the time Li Ziyuan arrived with the main force, Liu Lianming had basically figured out the enemy's situation.

Li Ziyuan knew very well that this battle might be his last chance. If you can't force the Japanese army anymore, the food will be transported away as soon as possible. Then after the end of this battle, with the usual practice of the Japanese army, I am afraid that they will not give themselves any chance to sneak attack Changzhi City.

So Li Ziyuan decided to use all the strength at hand this time to toss inside and outside Changzhi City. Even Li Ziyuan had already made up his mind that if there was a fighter plane that directly broke into Changzhi City. Find the Japanese soldiers in Changzhi City and talk about what it means to do good things and don't hide them in your hands.

Of course, the 36th Division, which was now rumored to be heavily guarded and greatly increased its garrison strength, would not touch this hard bone. Even if he could break through to Changzhi City, Li Ziyuan didn't want to delay in the city for more. However, the ammunition depot of the Fire God Temple was targeted by Li Ziyuan.

On the night of Li Ziyuan's arrival, after listening to Liu Lianming's report, Li Ziyuan did not hesitate at all and directly ordered to take action. He mainly took the Changzhi Independent Battalion as the main camp and directly attacked the Nanguan Freight Yard. With the main force of his own troops, he attacked the Meridian Gate Station with all his strength and carried out an attack on Beiguan.

He Sanliang commanded a force to deploy along the highway from Changzhi to Gaoping to block the return of the Japanese puppet army in the south of Changzhi. Before He Sanliang set off, Li Ziyuan repeatedly told He Sanliang not to fight to the death with the Japanese puppet army. Along the highway in a trapezoidal configuration, the mobile troops of the Japanese puppet army can be resisted.

He Sanliang's blocking action was based on the gunfire here. If the gunfire on this side only weakened, his blocking troops immediately got rid of the Japanese puppet army and retreated to the northeast at full speed. The place where it meets the main force is a village at the junction of Changzhi and Hubei.

Li Ziyuan repeatedly told He Sanliang that when he retreated, he must not go in the southeast and due east directions. If you really can't get rid of the Japanese puppet army, then withdraw to the west of Changzhi. Li Ziyuan told He Sanliang that he must be decisive when acting, and there must be no hesitation, he will find a way to keep in touch with He Sanliang.

After hesitating for a moment, considering the pressure that the blocking force under the command of He Sanliang might be under, Li Ziyuan handed over Liu Lianming's reconnaissance company to him. and all the earthen mines in the Changzhi Independent Battalion were scavenged and handed over to Liu Lianming. After some nagging confessions, Li Ziyuan sent away He Sanliang and Liu Lianming.

As Li Ziyuan gave the order to attack, outside Changzhi City, which had been quiet for three days, a dense burst of gunfire once again rang out. In addition to the Ziwumen Station in Beiguan, the freight yard in Nanguan was attacked again. And the first thing to start is the direction of Nanguan Freight Yard.

In order to strengthen the sweeping force, and to not weaken the forces deployed in other directions of the division as much as possible. The pseudo-iron-blooded troops with the strongest combat effectiveness in the entire southeastern region of Shanxi Province, which took over the Japanese garrison of the Nanguan freight yard, were transferred to the southern mountains for sweeping.

At present, the Nanguan Freight Yard is equipped with the armed police team of the Changzhi Puppet Police Department, plus a squadron of the Changzhi Garrison. In the case of almost all the previous garrison fortifications, these puppet armies could only rely on hastily built field fortifications to hold on. This has undoubtedly further weakened the combat effectiveness of these puppet armies.

And compared with the puppet army who are in a hurry and have the courage to bite back, these puppet policemen who drag their families are even worse in combat. Although the Changzhi Independent Battalion, which participated in the war, was a local armed force, the whole battalion had now changed its guns from top to bottom. Ammunition is plentiful, well-equipped, and morale is quite high. The whole battalion was holding their breath, planning to compete with Li Ziyuan's troops.

The Changzhi Independent Battalion, which was mainly attacking Nanguan, concentrated all its machine-gun fire when it came up, and under the cover of a mortar reinforced by Li Ziyuan, it focused its attack on the puppet policemen with the worst combat effectiveness. As soon as several machine guns were unveiled and the first mortar shell exploded, these pseudo-policemen were the first to collapse.

And the puppet army in front of him was directly dumbfounded in the face of firepower, which had an absolute advantage. After less than twenty minutes of resistance, the entire defense system was overwhelmed. It also implicated a detachment of the Japanese army used to supervise the battle, and after also suffering a few casualties, it could only retreat into the only remaining pillbox in the entire Nanguan freight yard and resist stubbornly.