This is a plain terrain, and the Japanese grenadiers have no terrain cover to use, and are directly exposed to bare terrain. Its artillery was defeated at the first time, and it lost the cover of artillery fire. Even the few heavy machine guns he carried didn't have time to get out of the car, and they were blown up by Zhou Tong's shells.

Without the fire support in its tactical rules, its usual infantry tactics could not be used at all, and it was beaten and lost its combat effectiveness. The Japanese machine gunners were quite stubborn, but they were able to face nothing but a passage blocked by artillery fire behind them. The dense firepower coming from all directions is simply impossible to contend with.

In particular, the Soviet-made heavy machine gun with bulletproof steel plate on the gun body easily suppressed the Japanese light machine gun without the threat of grenadiers and artillery fire. There was no need to even transfer the position to be nailed there and fired. This water-cooled heavy machine gun is not like air-cooled, as long as the cooling water is sufficient and the ammunition supply is ensured, the firepower can almost be said to be continuous.

Because of the protective steel plate, the machine gun shooter does not have to worry about the bullets of the opposing rifle machine gun hitting him. The use of wheeled gun carriages on flat ground is far lower than the height of the tripod, which also makes this Soviet-style Makqin heavy machine gun quite comfortable for machine gunners. Even if it is necessary to transfer positions, it can be transferred in the shortest possible time with one pull.

Not all of them were needed, and they came up to transfer the heavy machine guns. Two people, or even one person, can be easily pulled away. After all, dragging dozens of kilograms of things that use wheeled gun carriages is far more trouble-saving than carrying them, and it also saves more effort and moves faster.

Without worrying about the opponent's machine gun fire countermeasures, the firepower of these Soviet-made heavy machine guns is much higher than that of ordinary machine guns. Moreover, when the French heavy machine gunners suffered casualties due to the Japanese army's return fire, these Soviet-made heavy machine guns ensured the density of firepower. The rifle machine gun fire from the Japanese was blocked by the protective steel plates on the machine guns.

Despite desperate attempts by the Japanese to assemble, several attempts were defeated. The Japanese troops, who tried to use the vehicles as cover, forced mortar and mountain artillery shells plus grenadiers and drove them to the road. And on the road, they were greeted by intensive rifle fire.

The Japanese troops who tried to call for help, before the radio could be assumed, the signal corps was blown up by a mortar along with the radio. The Japanese troops, who could not assemble, could only retreat to the west while fighting after launching several pale and weak counterattacks in scattered formations, trying to break through the mortar blockade and get rid of Li Ziyuan's fire blow before massing.

This Japanese army put on a posture of retreat, and Li Ziyuan, who already had a certain plan in his heart, did not fight to the death. He knew very well that he would not be able to eat such a large group of enemies in a short period of time. No matter how abundant the ammunition is, it is impossible to solve it in a short time.

Thousands of Japanese troops, unless they fight with them now with bayonets, even if only half of them are left, it will be difficult to solve them in a short time. But Li Ziyuan didn't want to fight a white-knuckle battle, this kind of lose-lose style of play. And once the Japanese army is organized, don't be bitten back when the time comes.

Li Ziyuan decided that it was still suitable to stop, anyway, the corpses of the Japanese soldiers in one place told him. Even if he decided to retreat, the Japanese army had lost the ability to pursue him. Li Ziyuan accepted it when he saw it, and used firepower to drive the Japanese army out of the ambush circle. And at the bottom of the ambush circle, they also gradually began to shrink their forces and reduce their firepower.

After the Japanese army rushed out of Li Ziyuan's ambush circle with all their might, Li Ziyuan, who never launched a charge and only attacked with firepower, stopped the troops from trying to pursue. In addition to ordering the congratulatory chapter to *, drive them as far away as possible.

After giving the order to quickly clean up the battlefield, with the second battalion and four companies as the broken rear cover, the whole regiment immediately retreated to the southwest. This place is too close to Changzhi and Hubei, and as soon as the ambush battle here starts, it is equivalent to stabbing a hornet's nest, and the surrounding Japanese puppet army will quickly come to reinforce it.

Ambush warfare on the plains is not easy to fight, and it is necessary to grasp both the fighter and the rhythm. When it's time to fight, you must fight hard. When it's time to withdraw it, it is necessary to act quickly and must not be glued here. Anyway, this Japanese army can't eat a bite by itself, as long as they are disabled, it's time to close the stall and leave.

Ma Yongcheng was somewhat dissatisfied with Li Ziyuan's acceptance: "Why don't you completely solve them, Lao Li, as long as we hold on for half an hour, we can still weaken one-third of their strength." When the time comes, we can solve the problem with one charge. Dealing with these 1,000 Japanese troops will allow us to reduce a lot of pressure in the next step. ”

Regarding Ma Yongcheng's dissatisfaction, Li Ziyuan glanced at the troops who were sweeping the battlefield, but shook his head and said, "Old Ma, we won't have more time, even if it's half an hour." These thousands of Japanese troops are only the vanguard of their return to Changzhi, and the follow-up brigade will arrive soon. ”

"Although more than half of the casualties of this Japanese army are at present, in terms of the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army, it is absolutely not to the point of death. If we hold on, we'll be dragged here. Don't forget that we are alone now. Once the war drags on, it will be the most disadvantageous for us. ”

"Also, we do have plenty of ammunition at hand, but it's not infinite. If we consume too much ammunition, our future actions will be dangerous. We have to eat the meal in one bite, and we can't expect to eat it all at once, so we will be supported. Old horse, we can't be too greedy. ”

"If you don't want to be surrounded here, you should do the most important thing to do right now. Anyway, this Japanese army has already lost its vitality, so let's not fight to the death, then we will pay a senseless price. One more wounded person is now a serious burden for all of us. ”

persuaded Ma Yongcheng, who was a little dissatisfied, and Li Ziyuan kept urging the troops to speed up the cleaning of the battlefield. As for a few former prisoners of war soldiers, in order to give themselves the abuse and starvation they suffered in the Japanese prisoner of war camps and labor camps, they killed a few wounded Japanese soldiers, Li Ziyuan did not see it. This is not the time to criticize these fighters.

Li Ziyuan quickly cleaned up the battlefield, and he couldn't take away the truck that was lucky not to be destroyed. After smashing the fuel tank, he poured gasoline from a Japanese steel helmet on the cab and directly lit a fire, burning all the trucks. By the time Li Ziyuan left, the road was littered with wrecked trucks and the corpses of Japanese soldiers.

And although the cleaning of the battlefield is not long, the entire battlefield is unusually clean. The belts, ammunition boxes, gas masks, steel helmets, and water bottles on the Japanese soldiers were basically all they could use. In addition to the fact that the military uniform on the body was not stripped off, the leather shoes on the intact corpse were even stripped naked.

Those soldiers from the former Chongqing army were a little worse when cleaning the battlefield, and generally only took weapons and ammunition. But those veterans from the Eighth Road want to be practice makes perfect in this regard. As long as they passed, there was almost nothing left except for a Japanese corpse, leaving the newly joined soldiers dumbfounded.

If Li Ziyuan hadn't stopped him, several veterans would have even opened the bombed-out armored car and wanted to remove the machine guns on the body. It's not that it can't be disassembled, the problem is that it's too much of a waste of time. For Li Ziyuan at the moment, what he needs most is time. However, even if these two machine guns were not removed, this ambush battle was quite fruitful for Li Ziyuan.

Two complete 92 heavy machine guns, five crooked handles and 96 light machine guns, plus two Japanese 97-90 mm mortars, as well as two truckloads of ammunition and more than 300 Type 38 rifles, became Li Ziyuan's trophies. In particular, the amount of a whole truckload of Japanese-made ammunition far exceeded Li Ziyuan's imagination.

It's just a pity that the remaining more than 30 Japanese-made trucks are still complete, because there is no driver and can't leave the road, Li Ziyuan really has no way to take it away, so he can only burn it on fire. The three mountain guns were also blown up on the trailer, and there was basically no repair value for the twisted ones.

However, Zhou Tong still dismantled as much as possible, and the parts on the wreckage of the three guns. Although I am currently using a Krupp mountain gun, I can't use the same parts as a Japanese-made mountain gun. But if you can't use it now, it doesn't mean that you won't have the opportunity to use it in the future. Even the barrel of a complete 41-type mountain cannon was dismantled by him and you took it away.

Zhou Tong's way of living a diligent and thrifty life is very appreciated by Li Ziyuan. He also removed the other two Type 92 heavy machine guns that had been blown up, as well as usable parts. And looking at the intact ones in the lit trucks, Li Ziyuan felt a little distressed.

How nice it would be if these trucks could be used for themselves? Why should you rely on the two legs of your warriors when you are marching? A large number of captured materials still need to be carried on the march. It's just that the heart is distressed, but Li Ziyuan is helpless now. However, although the seizure was quite large this time, there was also one thing that made Li Ziyuan very dissatisfied, that is, the amount of grain in the seized materials was not much.

These thousands of Japanese soldiers didn't even bring a single can. Except for some field medicines, the rest of the Japanese army's field food was only a few biscuits. However, in the pile of corpses of the Japanese army, pulling out a Japanese doctor can be regarded as a kind of compensation in disguise.

After Li Ziyuan cleaned up the battlefield, he patted his ass and left in a hurry. After Li Ziyuan withdrew, when the Japanese army counted the troops, it was discovered that in just over 30 minutes of fighting, they had lost more than 400 people. That is, in these twenty minutes, they suffered nearly two squadrons of casualties.

Not only did the infantry suffer heavy losses, but there was also almost nothing left of the accompanying squadron of mountain artillery, plus a squadron of mortars, and a squadron of heavy machine guns. Especially the mountain artillery squadron, even with men and equipment, all the embers were lost. A lieutenant who led the command of the team, because a Japanese 95-type motor vehicle was too obvious, and even the people and the car were beaten into a hornet's nest.

Crucially, the convoy ahead had all their spare ammunition in it. Previously, he first fought against the Linxian side, and then launched a sweep in the Ludong area before he had time to rest. Now the division is like a burning butt, and a telegram in half an hour urges the retreat, so that the Japanese army has never had time to replenish ammunition.

Originally, the replenishment of ammunition had already arrived, but the extremely harshly worded telegram from the division headquarters could only make these Japanese troops wait until they returned to Changzhi to replenish them. But at the moment, the replenishment of ammunition was snatched away by the Eighth Road, and not even a single shot was left. And the ammunition on the soldiers' bodies is less than ten rounds per person. Even with more ammunition, the few remaining light machine guns averaged less than a hundred.