When Li Ziyuan led his troops to start the operation again, Dong Ping, who didn't know what was stimulated, volunteered to take his company to the front this time. Regarding Dong Ping's resolute request, Li Ziyuan cannot be denied. just nodded lightly, and it was considered an agreement.

After Li Ziyuan set off with the combat troops, Ma Yongcheng took the 6th Company of the 2nd Battalion to protect the wounded and supplies, as well as the local cadres who followed Li Ziyuan's actions. Joined up with He Huizhang, who had withdrawn from the mountain, and quickly rushed through the mountain pass behind the troops.

It's just a congratulatory chapter holding the barrel as a gun mount, and I'm afraid that for a long time it will only be carried by people to march. More than a dozen shots were fired in a short period of time*, and the resulting partial recoil made He Huizhang unable to move. In fact, it is not impossible for people to act as mortar mounts.

But in terms of the rate of fire and the number of shells fired, it is impossible to have too many at once. In a short period of time, more than a dozen cannons were fired in one go. He acts as a gun mount, and the cushioning force that the bracket needs to bear is borne by his body. The mortar is not without recoil, but it is smaller than the mountain artillery.

Moreover, the structural design is such that the recoil generated when the shell is fired is absorbed by the bottom plate and the gun carriage with buffers. In the absence of the possibility of placing the baseplate, He Huizhang sat the mortar directly in the recess of the stone. Although the recoil part is absorbed by the stone, there is no gun carriage with a buffer. A considerable part of the recoil is absorbed by his body.

As a result, more than a dozen high-velocity * shots were fired, and his whole body was also shocked and numb and unable to move. Even when he went down the mountain, after he had exhausted the thirty shells he was carrying, the soldier who had already freed his hands rubbed him off his back a little bit. This is also the fact that he marched with a mortar weighing dozens of kilograms all day long, and his body was quite strong.

If it were replaced by someone with a bad physique, it would probably not be unusual for him to die there on the spot. However, although he survived, there were some problems with his body. Especially in the case of ensuring the accuracy of shooting, he needs to use all his strength to hold on to the barrel of the cannon, so as not to move the muzzle of the cannonball because of the slide and firing of the cannonball.

More than a dozen shots were shot, which caused He Huizhang's body to suffer huge damage. But compared to another gunner who died on the spot, He Huizhang was still lucky. Although his body was greatly damaged and needed a long period of rest, he survived.

After receiving the congratulatory chapter, Ma Yongcheng did not hesitate to let people carry him on a stretcher to march. Fortunately, the prisoner released by Li Ziyuan in front of him was captured by him before he had time to run. Lacking stretcher bearers and being unable to fortify the wounded on the spot, in order not to affect the mobility of the troops, he did not care about any discipline at this time.

After recapturing these prisoners who had been dismissed by Li Ziyuan, he let the 180 captives carry He Huizhang and a dozen wounded and follow the troops under the escort of a squad. For Ma Yongcheng, who has always adhered to principles, this is quite rare.

After highlighting Basongling, Li Ziyuan led his troops to open the road with firepower, forcibly interspersed all the way to the south, and constantly fought fierce battles with small Japanese puppet troops along the way. encountered the interception of a small group of Japanese puppet troops, Li Ziyuan had a way. Concentrate your fire on it, and then charge with bayonets.

The small force of the Japanese puppet army encountered was not very large, and it was impossible to resist his style of play at all. Not to mention the puppet army, even the Japanese army could not withstand the stormy firepower under the cover of rows of bayonets. After defeating three Japanese puppet armies that came to intercept them in a row, Li Ziyuan joined Zhang Zijian's 1st battalion outside Basongling.

After the convergence, Li Ziyuan learned that the first battalion had not yet touched the puppet division headquarters, and encountered a Japanese-puppet mixed formation that had just arrived. This newly arrived Japanese puppet army, which was dominated by the puppet army, was a battalion of the third regiment left behind by this puppet army division to ensure the supply line. This battalion escorted a part of the supplies, and with the cooperation of a small Japanese team, it had just arrived at the outskirts of Basongling.

As a result, as soon as the two sides encountered, they fought, and a regiment of the puppet army not far from here was also involved in it at the first time. As the battle progressed, more and more Japanese puppet troops were swept over. At present, his battalion is in a stalemate with the Japanese puppet army in front of him.

Not only has he never been able to tear a hole, but under the siege of the superior forces of the puppet army, the situation is getting worse and worse. If it weren't for the large number of light and heavy machine guns in his hands, and although it was a battalion in terms of structure, it actually had more than 700 troops, which exceeded the judgment of the Japanese puppet army, and made the counterattack of the Japanese puppet army a refueling tactic.

And if you can't put all your vitality into it at the first time, then the results are self-evident. But even if it withstood the three-plate axe of the Japanese puppet army, it seemed a little more than enough to break through the resistance of the Japanese puppet army. Even as the Japanese puppet army invested more and more troops, the situation was in danger of deteriorating.

In order to ensure the transfer of the rest of the troops, Zhang Zijian is facing increasing pressure, so he can only desperately die here. By the time Li Ziyuan broke through the mountain pass line and arrived, Zhang Zijian's side was already very difficult. No matter how many troops he had in one battalion, he couldn't withstand the counterattack of two regiments of the puppet army and part of the Japanese army.

Although the puppet army of the two regiments was transferred to a reinforced battalion in the mountain pass, there were still fifteen or six hundred troops in the rear. Coupled with the Japanese army, which had stronger combat effectiveness, it brought tremendous pressure to Zhang Zijian. Despite the first encounter, Zhang Zijian concentrated his troops and firepower, and first defeated the pseudo-military camp that he encountered.

But the other Japanese puppet troops who rushed over immediately launched a rapid counterattack, which made Zhang Zijian's side fight very hard. If Li Ziyuan arrived half an hour late, the first battalion would not only be unable to open the gap, but would even be in danger of being surrounded by the Japanese puppet army with an absolute advantage in the forces in front of him.

Looking at the large number of Japanese puppet troops in front of him, Li Ziyuan, who knew that he could not stay here for a long time, immediately transferred the artillery company and the heavy machine gun company directly under the regiment. Concentrate all the light and heavy firepower, cover a battalion of troops, and cut a gap in the Japanese puppet army in front of you. Li Ziyuan just said a word, even if he used up all the shells, he would not hesitate.

The heavy machine gun company and artillery company that received the order concentrated all their firepower and hit the Japanese puppet army in front of them with a dense rain of bullets. More than a dozen Soviet-made light and heavy machine guns, as well as two captured heavy machine guns, did not take into account the consumption of ammunition and the service life of the guns. Shoot the dense bullets as if you don't want money.

In the previous battle of Yamaguchi, Zhou Tong, who did not have time to participate in the battle, brought the power of the old cannon in his hand to the extreme. There was a point of heavy machine-gun fire of the Japanese puppet army, and his shells fell in that direction. Even the mountain artillery was advanced to a distance of several hundred meters from the enemy, and the tactics of bayonets on the cannon were directly fired.

This old gun, which is almost more than half the age of the soldiers in the army, can be described as a super-level performance today. It's just that Zhou Tong's artillery fire fought for a while, knocking out nearly half of the light and heavy machine gun fire points of the Japanese puppet army. And forcibly blew up a puppet military camp that was assembled and ready to be put into the counter-charge.

Before, it could shoot at a battalion, and even mortars that had a slight upper hand because of their numbers. It is also suppressed by the mountain cannon of the He Huizhang. One of the two 37 flat-fire guns was knocked out, and the remaining one did not dare to open fire at all. Zhou Tong and his mountain cannon can be described as extremely good.

But before Li Ziyuan could scream, he suddenly stopped shooting. Seeing Zhou Tong stop firing, Li Ziyuan was very annoyed and said, "Old Zhou, what the fuck are you doing?" Why don't you continue to shoot at Lao Tzu? At this time, what cannonballs do you feel sorry for. Hit, shoot all the shells you are carrying to Lao Tzu. ”

Hearing Li Ziyuan's shout, Zhou Tong smiled bitterly and said, "Regiment leader, you can't fight anymore." The cannon itself is already very old, and the rifling is almost worn out. With such high-intensity use as ours, this cannon simply can't withstand it. The barrel of the cannon is already overheated, and it will explode if it is fired again. If you want to fire again, you have to wait until the barrel has cooled down. ”

Zhou Tong smiled bitterly, but Li Ziyuan shook his head and said, "Old Zhou, now the artillery support can't be stopped." Blow up the chamber, let's not want it. As long as the troops can be saved, we can still find a way to do it if we lose it. But if we're stuck here, there's no future. I order you, as long as the cannon does not explode, you continue to fire at Lao Tzu. ”

Li Ziyuan's even somewhat unreasonable order made Zhou Tong a little stunned. But he also knew that the situation was serious, so he bit him and opened a quilt that he didn't know where he got it, poured water on it, and covered it on the barrel of the cannon, trying to cool down the overheated barrel as quickly as possible.

Having taken the shell from the loader next to him, he ordered the surrounding soldiers to spread out as much as possible to avoid unnecessary casualties caused by the explosion of the artillery. He personally operated to load a shell into it, and after aiming at a puppet machine gun position, he pulled the firing rope fiercely.

Zhou Tong's mountain artillery fired again, and the second platoon commander of the artillery company who took over the now shocked eardrum bleeding He Huizhang was also He Huizhang's most proud disciple, and the rate of fire of the four mortars after the convergence was brought into full play. Several artillery pieces smashed shells on the heads of the Japanese puppet army, regardless of whether the guns themselves could withstand such a high rate of fire.

The dense, almost non-stop shells blew up the puppet army on the opposite side and mixed the casualties. The offensive formation was even more bombed. Coupled with the intensive machine-gun fire, the counterattacks of the Japanese puppet army in front of them were defeated again and again. After a few rounds of firepower, the puppet army in front of him was no longer able to organize a decent offensive.

It was not so much a cooperation as a Japanese army supervising the war. Seeing that the puppet army was unable to succeed for a long time, he simply showed his arms and sleeves and launched an attack in person. But under the dense fire, there were also heavy casualties, and the two waves of attacks threw down the corpses on the ground, and they had to be withdrawn.

In order to ensure that the puppet army in front of him can be defeated as soon as possible, Li Ziyuan can be said to be regardless of blood costs. However, he made a windfall in Xiyaogou before, and Li Ziyuan couldn't fight this kind of battle even if he was bankrupt. It's just that Li Ziyuan has invested a lot of blood, but the effect is also good.

Even if the puppet army in front of him is tenacious, it can't withstand Li Ziyuan's dense firepower regardless of ammunition consumption. From the very beginning, relying on superior forces to stubbornly counterattack, to the final inability to resist. Seeing that the puppet army had collapsed, Li Ziyuan did not hesitate at all. With all the strength of the 2nd Battalion plus Dong Ping's independent company, a counterattack was launched on the whole front.