After discovering that although he had not yet engaged in fire with the Japanese puppet army, he had actually fallen into the encirclement. Li Ziyuan, who knew that he needed his mind to stay calm at this time, was not flustered, but was very calm. Because a senior cadre who was demoted to the Red University as a teacher once told him that the more unfavorable the situation, the more important it is to keep a cool head on the battlefield.

After the decision, Shi Jin must gather good personnel, especially after the recruits do not fall behind in large numbers. He led his troops and cautiously walked along the gap between the two Japanese troops of Luoma and Xinghuagou, which was already a very narrow gap at this time, and touched the outside of the Japanese encirclement little by little.

But at this moment, when the sky is already bright, it is not too easy to touch out under the noses of the Japanese soldiers around. In particular, after dawn, a Japanese reconnaissance plane hovering in the sky made it even more difficult for him to break through the encirclement. At this moment, the two wings, the front and the Japanese puppet army behind him, the speed of encirclement is also accelerating.

On a hill in the northeast mountains of Xinghuagou, Li Ziyuan could even clearly see that the Japanese puppet army in the direction of Xinghuagou was lined up in battle formation, with the puppet army as the lead, and the Japanese army followed closely behind each other to pass through one hill after another. And the Japanese puppet army in the direction of Leopard's Mouth is also searching and advancing from the direction of Leopard's Mouth to Wangjiagou.

Having received reports from two sides, the entire attempt of the Japanese army has been exposed. And the search action of the Japanese puppet army in the direction of Xinghuagou clearly knew that Li Ziyuan's department had broken away from Qiaokou. This shows that the Japanese puppet army on the Qiaokou front line is very likely to launch a search to the east after the detour forces in the other two directions are roughly in place.

After discovering that his troops had disappeared, a notification was sent to the other parties to the Japanese puppet army. Otherwise, the Japanese puppet army in Xinghuagou would not have put on a Japanese standard inverted triangle formation when there was still a distance from Wangjiagou. At the same time, when searching and advancing, always stay within the suppression range of the light and heavy machine guns behind you.

And judging from the movements of the Japanese puppet army in the direction of Xinghuagou, the Japanese puppet army on the front line of Qiaokou has at least searched the front line of Wangjiagou. Otherwise, the Japanese puppet army on the front line of Xinghuagou would not have launched a search so early. Presumably, the Japanese puppet army in the direction of Leopard's Mouth should have been fully deployed at this time. As for the Japanese puppet army that fell off their horses, they should be searching all the way in the flank direction at this moment.

Looking at the Japanese planes constantly circling in the sky, and the Japanese puppet army in the direction of Xinghuagou, although it was slow, it was unusually careful and careful to move forward. Li Ziyuan, who was constantly calculating the speed of the Japanese puppet army's actions in several other directions, found that there was really not much time left for him to break through.

But no matter what action he makes, it is difficult to hide the thief's eye of the plane in the sky that is almost flying against the mountain. And once his actions are exposed, it is very likely that he will encounter the rapid encirclement of the surrounding Japanese puppet army at the first time, which undoubtedly exposes himself in advance.

But if you don't hurry up and break through and wait for dark before acting. Judging from the speed of the advance of the surrounding Japanese puppet army, it is impossible for him to hold out until dark no matter what. Faced with the most complicated and severe situation encountered in the past few years of military career since he joined the Red Army in the past three or five years.

Li Ziyuan kept telling himself in his heart to be calm, he must calm down at this critical moment, and he must not act hastily. At this time, once the gun is fired, it means that the surrounding Japanese puppet army will block itself in this area with an absolute superiority in strength. While his mind was constantly running rapidly, he was constantly thinking about how to get the troops out safely.

After carefully observing the surrounding terrain and roughly analyzing the number of troops that the Japanese army might send in all directions, Li Ziyuan gritted his teeth. With his troops, he withdrew to the northeast of the forest, where the forest was most dense, that is, in the direction where the fallen Japanese troops came.

Although he would prefer to retreat to the southeast, he must at least get rid of the nasty Japanese reconnaissance plane above his head. Turning southeast from Wangjiagou, you have to go through a period of sparse forest and a bean field. Without the cover of the green gauze tent, every move on the ground could not escape the thief's eyes in the sky. Retreating to the northeast became Li Ziyuan's only choice at the moment.

Li Ziyuan led the team to carefully avoid the Japanese puppet army's search forces all the way, and retreated quickly along the direction of the mountain. Along the way, even if he encountered a small group of Japanese puppet troops, as long as he was not discovered, Li Ziyuan was resolutely not allowed to shoot. His meaning is very clear, that is, to find a way to get out of the gap along the gap that there is not much left, before the Japanese puppet army dispatched from the fallen horse and the Japanese puppet army dispatched from Xinghuagou and Qiaokou converge.

In order to avoid the Japanese reconnaissance plane on his head, Li Ziyuan drilled there in the middle of nowhere. Along the way, he did not dare to take the ridge, so he could only retreat quickly to the northwest along the mountainside. Fortunately, this direction was not the focus of the reconnaissance and search of the Japanese puppet army, coupled with Li Ziyuan's deliberate caution all the way, he was still able to withdraw more than ten miles relatively smoothly.

But when there were still more than ten miles of mountain roads from the stronghold of Luoma, Li Ziyuan and the troops he led had good luck. Fifteen miles southeast of Luoma, the troops led by Li Ziyuan met head-on with the Japanese puppet army that had fallen from the horse. This encounter was so sudden that even Guo Laosan didn't have time to warn him in advance.

The actual problem in this encounter was the fourth squad of the second squadron that was arranged by Li Ziyuan to serve as the flank cover. According to Li Ziyuan's deployment, this squad moved along the ridge to ensure the flank of the entire marching column. Because they had to avoid reconnaissance planes in the sky, the marching sequence of the troops was very long. In this case, flank cover is quite important.

As a result, I didn't expect that when passing through a mountain pass, the four squads were too slow to move, and as a result, the troops in front had already passed, and before the troops in the back could pass through, they were encountering the Japanese puppet army that had searched from the other side of the mountain, and they had a head encounter.

Originally, according to Li Ziyuan's calculation based on the speed of the actions of the Japanese puppet army in Xinghuagou, if he crossed this mountain pass, he would be able to jump out of the circle drawn up for him by Luo Hekanshiro. But I didn't expect that at this last juncture, there was a problem. He had a head-to-head encounter with the Japanese puppet army, but he didn't even have a place to hide.

Facing the Japanese puppet army that met head-on, Liu Lianming, as the striker, had no time to react, and took his small team to directly a platoon of guns to beat down part of the Japanese puppet army that was crossing the mountain. And quickly occupy favorable terrain, covering the passage of the follow-up troops who have not yet passed through the passes. Liu Lianming's platoon gun, even the ghosts have woken up, not to mention the Japanese puppet army dispatched from the stronghold?

And with Liu Lianming in front of him and the Japanese puppet army exchanging fire, a Japanese puppet army also rushed out from the mountain pass, and at this moment Li Ziyuan's whereabouts have not only been completely exposed, but once the Japanese puppet army controls this mountain pass, Li Ziyuan's troops are in danger of being cut off.

Seeing the Japanese puppet army rushing over, Li Ziyuan immediately made a decision and immediately commanded the four and five squads around him to launch a block in front of the mountain pass on the spot to block the Japanese puppet army that was constantly trying to attack the mountain pass. Ordered the sixth squad with two machine guns to immediately seize a hill on the right flank and suppress the deep strength of the Japanese army.

Li Ziyuan reacted quickly, and the Japanese puppet army in front of him was not slow to react. After discovering the encounter with the Eighth Road in front of him, the Japanese puppet army in front of him did not hesitate at all, and immediately launched an attack on the mountain pass controlled by Li Ziyuan and the high ground on both sides of the mountain pass under the cover of light and heavy machine guns and an infantry gun. Tried to seize the mountain pass and cut Li Ziyuan's department into two sections.

In the face of the offensive launched by the Japanese puppet army, Li Ziyuan commanded these two squads to resist stubbornly on the spot, and constantly blocked the Japanese puppet army rushing up with firepower, creating conditions for the follow-up troops to quickly pass through the mountain pass. However, a heavy machine gun deployed by the Japanese army on the opposite hill was accurate and ruthless, and then deployed in depth with the cooperation of infantry artillery fire, the mountain pass was blocked.

The shell gun in his hand raised his hand and fired a burst of fire, knocking down the two puppet soldiers who were charging towards the mountain. Li Ziyuan rolled to the side, dodging a grenade that exploded in his original position. Looking at the mountain pass, which was blocked by the heavy machine guns and infantry guns of the Japanese puppet army, and the follow-up troops were almost impassable, Li Ziyuan's head was a little bigger.

Li Ziyuan, who knew that he didn't have much time left, called He Huizhang and said, "Old He, it's not okay like this." We can't delay here for too long, if we don't think of a way to retreat, as soon as the devil's reinforcements arrive, we can't retreat even if we want to. You have to find a way to knock out the devil's 92 heavy machine gun. ”

Hearing Li Ziyuan's order, He Huizhang raised his head and glanced at the position of the heavy machine gun and said, "Captain, no." The devil's heavy machine gun was about 500 meters in front of us, and firing from this distance would not have been able to make the first hit. You know the quality of the devil machine gunner, two shots that can't hit can only interrupt them for a while. ”

"In a minute, their machine-gun fire will be revived, and then it will inflict even greater losses on us. You'll have to send me at least a hundred meters forward, and I'll be sure. If my mortar had been there, I wouldn't have any problems, and I'll take it out for you within a kilometer. ”

He Huizhang's answer, Li Ziyuan did not hesitate at all, and said to the four squad leaders beside him: "Gather the troops immediately, and Lao Tzu will personally lead you to counterattack." Remember that we didn't have a counterattack tactic during training, so we played according to that tactic. You take the first echelon and concentrate the firepower of two Jinzao submachine guns, a flower machine, and two light machine guns to open a passage. ”

"Lao Tzu in the back took five squads as the second echelon and greeted them directly with grenades. But you remember to Lao Tzu that your two submachine guns should alternately cover, don't know how to fire vigorously regardless of your head. Can we go forward this 100 meters, can you kid use these three automatic firearms well. This 100 meters, we have to fight out even if we throw it all here, otherwise the recruit squadron will have to be thrown behind. ”

After that, Li Ziyuan replaced the shell gun in his hand with a new magazine, and after hanging a few Japanese-made grenades on his belt, he looked at the Japanese puppet army under the mountain who was adjusting their deployment and preparing to attack again. Holding a shell gun in one hand, holding two magazines in his mouth, and carrying a Jinzao grenade that had been pulled out of the torch and buckled on his little thumb in the other, he led four or five squads with a wave of his hand and rushed out directly under the cover of two light machine guns.